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. Human Growth and Development Standard 3.h: general framework for understanding differing abilities and strategies for differentiated interventions.
2. Counseling and Helping Relationships Standard 5.c.: theories, models, and strategies for understanding and practicing consultation.
3. Counseling and Helping Relationships Standard 5.c: Essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.
4. Group Counseling and Group Work Standard 6.e: Approaches to group formation, including recruiting, screening, and selecting members.

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 basic/advanced counseling skills with clients in community settings.
2. Demonstrate a range of counseling skills to provide effective counseling services to clients in the community.
3. Plan an advocacy effort to address an issue on behalf of the profession.
   Describe models of consultation and their use in practice.
4. Recognize worldviews of others from various cultures including their outlook on illness and health care.
5. Demonstrate cultural/diversity knowledge in their counseling.
6. Describe organizational barriers faced by individuals with disabilities and discuss the counselor’s role in developing strategies to promote organizational changes that may foster diversity competence.

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 Program Evaluation Standard 8.g: designs used in research and program evaluation.
2. Clinical Mental Health Counseling Standard: Practice 3.a: intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload management.
3. Group Counseling and Group Work Standard: 6.f.: types of groups and other considerations that affect conducting groups in varied settings.
4. Social and Cultural Diversity Standard 2.c: theories and models of multicultural counseling, cultural identity development, and social justice and advocacy.

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. Clinical Mental health Counseling: Practice: 3.a. intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload management.
2. Career Development Standard 4.f. strategies for career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation.

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. Group Counseling and Group Work Standard 6.g: Ethical and culturally relevant strategies for designing and facilitating groups.
2. Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice Standard 1.i: Ethical standards of professional counseling organizations and credentialing bodies, and applications of ethical and legal considerations in professional counseling.
3. Research and Program Evaluation Standard 8.j: Ethical and culturally relevant strategies for conducting, interpreting, and reporting the results of research and/or program evaluation.

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. Standard 4.i: Methods of identifying and using assessment tools and techniques relevant to career planning and decision making
2. Assessment and Treating Standard 7.i: Use of assessments relevant to academic/educational, career, personal, and social development

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. Students will be able to select a relevant counseling issue to research and use appropriate methods to investigate it.
2. Students will be able to select a topic relevant to practice in counseling, research the topic, write a literature review, and present the literature review to a group.
3. Students will be able to use systematic search techniques to locate and critically evaluate occupational information.
4. Students will be able to find and use research and other sources of evidence to critique assessments as part of the selection process.
5. Students will be able to prepare a report in a consulting capacity for presentation to an employer. Students will be able to research specific cultures to identify possible counseling issues and present findings to a group.

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. Human Growth and Development Standard 3.g. effects of crisis, disasters, and trauma on diverse individuals across the lifespan.
2. Group Work Standard 6.f. types of groups and other considerations that affect conducting groups in varied settings.
3. Research and Program Evaluation Standard 8.i. analysis and use of data in counseling.

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. Assessment and Testing Standard 7.i. use of assessments relevant to academic/educational, career, personal, and social development.
2. Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice Standard 1.d. the role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of the profession.
3. Social and Cultural Diversity Standard 2.f. help-seeking behaviors of diverse clients.
4. Counseling and Helping Relations Standard 5.e. the impact of technology on the counseling process.

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. Human Growth and Development Standard 3.g: Effects of crisis, disasters, and trauma on diverse individuals across the lifespan.
2. Assessment and Testing Standard 7.d: Procedures for identifying trauma and abuse and for reporting abuse.