Graduate Programs
Mission
The mission of the University of North Texas at Dallas Counseling Program is to develop responsive counselors through education, research, and service.
- Through education, the program prepares highly competent and skilled counseling professionals to work in agencies, schools, and communities.
- Through research, the program creates, applies, and disseminates innovative knowledge to improve the well-being of children, adolescents, adults, seniors, agencies, schools, and communities.
- Through service, the program provides leadership in professional and community organizations, training to professionals, and services to individuals, schools, and agencies in the community.
Vision
The UNTD Counseling Program seeks local, state, regional, national, and international prominence as a collaborative and transformative community engaged in exemplary research, education, and service that benefit the profession of counseling, the public it serves, and humanity at large.
Objectives
Through a curriculum grounded in social justice and service learning, graduates will gain exposure to diverse field-based experiences that assist them to develop foundational knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for success in clinical mental health and school counseling settings. Specifically, graduates will:
- Demonstrate mastery of core counseling knowledge and skills necessary for licensure and certification as indicated by 80% of students earning a passing Total score on their Comprehensive Professional Counselor Exam (CPCE).
- Engage in a process of personal and professional reflection that allows them to identify a guiding theory of counseling that will serve as a foundation for counseling as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5690 Practicum Case Presentation theory section.
- Develop and maintain effective, culturally responsive counseling relationships as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5721 Case Conceptualization diversity section.
- Cultivate ethical and legal disposition to counseling practice as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5720 Case Conceptualization ethics section.
- Demonstrate social justice advocacy and leadership skills in counseling practice as indicated by 80% of students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5100 Group Professional Advocacy project.
- Develop, manage, and evaluate counseling services and programs as indicated by 80% of CMHC students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5300 Organizational Leadership and Advanced Clinical Mental Health Program Agency Case Study Presentation and 80% of School Counseling students earning an 80% or better on their COUN 5341 Advanced School Counseling Accountability Project.