Education Specialist in Mental Health and Addictions

Mission Statement

Our mission is to prepare highly effective counselors equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to serve a diverse, multicultural, and global society with marginalized populations. The faculty, current and former students, and community partners provide input to achieve our mission through the following objectives.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Foster the development of a strong professional counselor identity following the ethical guidelines outlined in the ACA and NAADAC Codes Ethics.
  2. Prepare culturally competent counselors to serve a diverse, multicultural, and global society with marginalized populations.
  3. Prepare counselors to apply human developmental theory to inform interventions across the lifespan. 
  4. Produce counselors with a nuanced understanding of career development to conceptualize the intricate interplay between work, mental well-being, and other life roles.
  5. Prepare counselors who employ theoretically grounded counseling interventions to establish theory-based client outcomes.
  6. Prepare counselors who employ group dynamics and application of group theory in group counseling practice. 
  7. Prepare counselors who employ ethical and culturally responsive assessment practices, strategies, and interventions in counseling practice.
  8. Prepare counselors who critically evaluate and utilize research methods in professional counseling.
  9. Produce clinical mental health counselor’s adept at diagnosis, mental health case conceptualization, and treatment planning.
  10. Prepare addiction professionals adept at offering addiction-specific services to support clients along the continuum of prevention and recovery to include assessment, interventions, psychopharmacology, treatment strategies, and recovery tools.