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COUNSELING
PROGRAMS
MISSION
STATEMENTS
Assessment Plans & Reports
The
Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling specifically prepares the
student for working within mental and behavioral health settings,
such as human service agencies and hospitals, as well as career
and educational environments. Emphasis is focused on training
the student to be a skilled clinician who is capable of integrating
counseling and psychology theory with their daily practice. A
special emphasis in this program is preparing the student for
new and dramatic changes occurring within today's behavioral health
care and managed care marketplace, with training in brief therapies,
practical models of treatment, and cooperation with third party
payors of service. Graduates of this program are trained to offer
counseling and therapy services to individuals, families, and
groups; they assess and target for treatment problems involving
developmental transitions, or more severe behavioral and emotional
problems; they also consult with individuals, families, and organizations.
The program is designed to train traditional students who enter
directly out of undergraduate programs and non-traditional students
who are returning to college to undertake professional preparation
for a new career. Students are recruited primarily from the state
of Mississippi and surrounding southeastern states. Faculty participating
in the program teach a combination of graduate and undergraduate
course work, supervise student research when appropriate, and
provide regular advising services. The MHC mission
statement is reviewed for revision on a regular basis.
The
Master of Science in Marriage and Family Counseling specifically prepares
the student for working within mental health centers, hospitals,
industry, churches and private practice. Marriage and family therapists
contribute important knowledge and skill to treatment of parent-child
problems, marital conflict, sexual dysfunction, substance abuse
and other common psycho-social problems. Emphasis is placed on
the development of skilled clinicians who successfully integrate
therapeutic knowledge and practice. A significant dimension of
the program is attention to the often neglected needs of marginalized
persons: ethnic minorities, the impoverished, and women. Therapy
involves consideration of the social and cultural forces impinging
on individuals, couples and families. An effort is made to prepare
clinicians capable of effective intervention at the individual,
family and community levels. The program is designed to train
traditional students who enter directly out of undergraduate programs
and non-traditional students who are returning to college to undertake
professional preparation for a new career. Students are recruited
primarily from the state of Mississippi and surrounding southeastern
states. Faculty participating in the program teach a combination
of graduate and undergraduate course work, supervise student research
when appropriate, and provide regular advising services. The MFC
mission statement is reviewed for revision on an annual basis.
The
Master of Education in School Counseling Program
prepares the student for working within school and educational
settings. Emphasis is focused on training the student to be a
skilled clinician who is capable of integrating counseling and
psychology theory with their daily practice. The School Counseling
Program trains the student in the role and function of the counselor
within the school setting and provides an understanding of the
coordination of a counseling program as it relates to the total
school community. There is an emphasis in this program on the
coordination of interdisciplinary efforts to provide support for
the child or adolescent within their educational process. The
student is trained in the design, implementation, and evaluation
of a comprehensive, developmental school program. The program
is designed to train traditional students who enter directly out
of undergraduate programs, and non-traditional students who are
returning to college to undertake professional preparation for
a new career in school counseling. Students are recruited primarily
from the state of Mississippi and surrounding southeastern states.
Faculty participating in the program teach a combination of graduate
and undergraduate course work, supervise student research when
appropriate, and provide regular advising services. The school counseling mission
statement is reviewed for revision on an annual basis.
COUNSELING
PROGRAMS
OBJECTIVES
The
Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling program originally
started in 1998 with three general objectives that were developed
by the faculty teaching in the program. In the fall of 1999, the
MHC program review resulted in a revision of program objectives.
There are now four general objectives:
1.
Graduates will have a basic knowledge foundation in the areas
of legal, ethical, professional issues in counseling, social and cultural
foundations, human growth and development, career development,
helping relationships, group work, appraisal, and research and
program evaluation.
- Graduates
will be satisfied with how well the Program prepared them
for a career in counseling - for using their counseling, consultation
assessment skills effectively. They will also be satisfied
with the quality of their advisement, instruction, program
resources and technology utilized during their program.
- Graduates
will demonstrate a basic competence in the skill areas of
individual counseling, family counseling, group counseling,
consultation, and overall clinical work.
- Program
faculty members will develop increased competencies within
the mental health field.
Assessment
results for the Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling program objectives.
[
Assessment Plan | Assessment Report]
Master of Science in Marriage and Family counseling program started
with five general objectives in the fall of 1998. These objectives
were reviewed in the fall of 1999 and retained with no revisions.
The five general program objectives are:
- Graduates
will have basic competencies to treat parent--child problems,
marital conflict, sexual dysfunction, substance abuse and other
common psychological problems.
- Graduates
will enter positions in mental health centers, hospitals, industry,
churches, and private practice.
- Graduates
will be able to integrate therapeutic knowledge and practice.
- Graduates
will be prepared to attend to the needs of marginalized persons:
ethnic minorities, the impoverished, and women; with consideration
being given to the social and cultural forces impending on individuals,
couples, and families.
- Graduates
will have the basic competencies to effectively intervene at
the individual, family and community levels.
Assessment
results for the Master of Science in Marriage and Family Counseling program
objectives:
[Assessment
Plan | Assessment
Report]
The
Master of Education in School Counseling program started
with three general objectives in the fall of 1998. These objectives
were reviewed in the fall of 1999 and retained with no revisions.
The three general program objectives are:
- Upon
completion of their program, students will demonstrate an ability
to know, apply, and synthesize basic knowledge from eight core
areas: human growth and development, social and cultural foundations,
helping relationships, groups, lifestyle and career development,
appraisal, research and evaluation, legal, ethical, professional issues in counseling.
- Upon
completion of their program, students will demonstrate a mastery
of basic skills and professional readiness.
- Upon
completion of their program, students will demonstrate a preparedness
for employment in the area of emphasis and/or further graduate
school study.
Assessment
results for the Master of Education in School Counseling
program objectives:
[Assessment Plan |
Assessment Report]
All
counseling programs strive to develop within our students an attitude
toward others which is characterized by the following:
- Respect
for the dignity and worth of the individual;
- Commitment
to the fulfillment of human potential;
- A
high degree of sensitivity and acceptance of other people's
behavior, values, and lifestyles;
- Commitment
to community and environmental wellbeing;
- Acceptance
of persons with values and lifestyles different from their own.
We
attempt to develop this attitude through the provision of curricular
and clinical experiences, the development of self-understanding
and self-development, ongoing self-examinations, and through the
modeling of such attitudes by our faculty.
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