Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

1. Counseling – B.1.c.: Conceptualization of clients from multiple theoretical perspectives
2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate respectful interactions with peers, students, professors and counseling/psychiatric rehabilitation professionals in all interactions
2. Apply the goals, values, and principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and/or the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics to all professional interactions
3. Evaluate the impact of ethical and cultural diversity, disability, legal status, and sexual orientation and gender identity on psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, access to care, appropriateness of care, and health beliefs and practices.
4. Apply leadership strategies and competencies to propose a plan to address current, national issues related to the psychiatric rehabilitation or counseling profession

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Research and Scholarship – B.4.h.: Professional writing for journal and newsletter publication Leadership and Advocacy – B.4.h.: Professional writing for journal and newsletter publication.
2. Teaching – B.3.h.: Ethical and culturally relevant strategies used in counselor preparation

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate conceptualization of clients from multiple theoretical perspectives and integrate theories relevant to counseling.
2. Describe roles and relationship related to clinical supervision.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within their scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
2. Articulate ethical and legal decision making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

1. Counseling standard 1.f.: Ethical and culturally relevant counseling in multiple settings.
2. Research and scholarship standard 4.l.: Ethical and culturally relevant strategies for conducting research.
3. Leadership and advocacy standard 5.l.: Ethical and culturally relevant leadership and advocacy practices.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Create a teacher- and student-centered lesson plan.
2. Develop an assessment of student learning.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Identify quantitative and/or qualitative statistical methods to evaluate research question.
2. Write a research proposal that integrates a relevant question, literature review, research design, planned statistical analysis, and potential study threats.
3. Disseminate study results in a professional scholarly presentation.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

1. Identify and select research designs appropriate to quantitative and qualitative research methods.
2. Articulate strategies of leadership in relation to current multicultural and social justice issues.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

1. Implement skills of clinical supervision in individuals, triadic, or group contexts
2. Describe models and competencies for advocating on behalf of the profession and professional identity, and advocating for clients at the individual, system, and policy levels.

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies.

Program Outcomes:

1. Leadership and Advocacy – B.5.h.: Current topical and political issues in counseling and how those issues affect the daily work of counselors and the counseling profession.
2. Leadership and Advocacy – B.5.f.: Leadership roles and strategies for responding to crises and disasters.