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MEd in School Counseling (Licensure)

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Grand Canyon University (GCU) School Counseling Program Objectives

Program Objective One: The counseling programs provide learning opportunities for counselors-in-training to develop and apply the knowledge, skills, and dispositional values to become competent, ethical, and culturally responsive global contributors.

School Counselors in Training Learning Outcomes:

  • Counselor Identity and Ethics: Develop best practices and counselor identity as informed by ethical and professional standards and programmatic dispositional values.
  • Diversity and Advocacy: Gain opportunities to practice ethically as advocates for social justice through exposure to multicultural counseling theories and experiential exercises that promote awareness of cultural bias and diverse worldviews.
  • Human Growth and Development: Acquire knowledge and skills to meet the diverse needs of individuals in the context of human growth and development.
  • Counseling & Helping Relationships: Cultivate counseling and helping skills by integrating counseling theories and research, engaging in community collaboration and outreach, and developing skills to apply in professional and therapeutic relationships.
  • Group Counseling and Group Work: Integrate theoretical foundations and consider dynamics and therapeutic factors to gain knowledge of theories, develop techniques, promote leadership skills, and facilitate the therapeutic group process for diverse clients.
  • Research and Program Evaluation: Acquire the knowledge and skills needed to identify, evaluate, and utilize research to inform best practices in counseling.
  • Career Development: Facilitate college and career readiness standards to support the development of students in P-12 settings.
  • Testing and Assessment: Utilize assessment methods, research, and program evaluation to appraise effectiveness of comprehensive school counseling programs using outcome data to inform future practice.
  • Specialty Area for SC: Develop an educator and counselor identity that integrates the GCU Professional Dispositions of Learners and upholds ASCA professional and ethical standards as licensed/certified school counselors by acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to plan, implement, and evaluate comprehensive school counseling programs based on research and national standards.

Program Objective Two: The programs will recruit, enroll, and retain qualified applicants that reflect the demographic diversity of the multicultural and pluralistic societies in which they will serve.

Program Objective Three: Graduates of the program will complete curricular requisites in preparation to obtain licensure and secure employment in their respective specialty

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2023-2024 Vital Statistics and Annual Report

The 2023-2024 Vital Statistics and Annual Report for Grand Canyon University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs are included in the proceeding document:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:877108fc-e883-4963-b744-ff54fb40cb95

 

2022-2023 Vital Statistics and Annual Report

The 2022-2023 Vital Statistics and Annual Report for Grand Canyon University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs are included in the proceeding document:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:f57d2870-f5df-4c68-837f-84a7217e1552 

 

2021-2022 Vital Statistics and Annual Report

The 2021-2022 Vital Statistics and Annual Report for Grand Canyon University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs are included in the proceeding document:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:9c72e692-05d5-42cc-a568-2ab1a3dcf05b 

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Our faculty are committed to bringing their abundant knowledge, enthusiasm, and experience to GCU and its students every day.
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