Counselor Education Doctoral Degree

1. KNOW: Apply knowledge to serve as effective, ethical professionals in schools, community/mental health agencies, rehabilitation agencies, career and job-related agencies, private practice, and colleges and universities. 
2. APPLY/CREATE: Provide leadership in educational, and human and rehabilitation services settings. 
3. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: Incorporate and develop best practices through the application of counseling theories, research, scholarly literature, and technology in teaching, leadership, and scholarship. 
4. APPLY/CREATE: Create effective programs, interventions, and advocacy for individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations. 
5. COMMUNICATE: Strive to empower and advocate for themselves, their profession, and individuals from all backgrounds within their employment context 
6. APPLY/CREATE: Utilize multicultural and social justice counseling competencies to support and empower students and supervisees to effectively serve diverse populations. 
7.  THINK: Exhibit a capacity for self-reflection and an openness to feedback to evaluate and improve personal and organizational practices. 

The program consists of a minimum of four academic years of graduate level preparation (including master's-level preparation), defined as eight semesters, with a minimum of 96 graduate-level credits required of all students in the program.

Learning experiences beyond the master's-level are required in all of the following content areas:
 

• Theories pertaining to the principles and practice of counseling, career development, group work, systems, and consultation
• Theories and practices of counselor supervision
• Instructional theory and methods relevant to counselor education
• Pedagogy relevant to current social and cultural issues, including social change theory and advocacy action planning
• Design and implementation of quantitative research methodology, including univariate, multivariate, and single-subject design
• Design and implementation of qualitative research, including grounded theory, ethnographic, and phenomenological methodologies
• Models and methods of assessment and use of data
• Ethical and legal considerations in counselor education and supervision
• The role of racial, ethnic, and cultural heritage, nationality, socioeconomic status, family structure, age, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual beliefs, occupation, physical, and mental status, local, regional, national, international perspective, and equity issues in counselor education programs

Counselor Education doctoral students will have experiences that are designed to:
 

• Develop an area of professional counseling expertise
• Develop collaborative relationships with program faculty in teaching, supervision, research, professional writing, and service to the profession and public
• Foster participation in professional counseling organizations, including the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) and the American Counseling Association (ACA)
• Meet criteria for appropriate credentials
• Promote scholarly counseling research
• Enhance technical competence

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