Counseling Program Objectives
- To provide leadership in the integration of sound and ethical clinical practice, skills and techniques, and Biblically based values.
- To promote the enhancement of accurate self-awareness and understanding.
- To encourage professional development through participation and leadership in professional organizations.
- To provide studies in the core areas of counseling knowledge and skills to include the following: human growth and development, social (family systems) and cultural foundations, helping relationships (including skills and techniques), group work, research and program evaluation, appraisal, career development, personality theories, and professional orientation and ethics.
- To provide studies in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders (addictions, psychopathology).
- To provide comprehensive supervised clinical experience in community agency and school settings.


