Our Mission and Purpose

Rooted in ethical competency and evidence-based practices, our Counselor Education program cultivates compassionate, respectful professionals who understand the complexities of human growth across the lifespan. Our program prepares future counselors to navigate lifespan issues with a reflective and dynamic approach. By emphasizing ethical practices, self-reflection, and a diversity of counseling techniques, we empower students to become lifelong learners and skilled professionals, ready to serve and make meaningful connections in diverse and evolving communities.

Our purpose is to work with students from all over the world and contribute solutions to the growing global need of mental health and school services for marginalized populations.

 

Goal

The Counseling faculty prepare skilled practitioners with a Professional Counseling identity through a program of planned, sequenced, and educational experiences that address the following objectives.

 

Program Objectives / CACREP Key Performance Indicators 

The Counseling faculty created the following program objectives / key performance indicators for students in the Counseling Program and demonstrate how they relate to the 2024 CACREP Core Standards.

• Students will develop a professional identity as a counselor related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.A. Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice
     

     

• Students will apply ethical practices and principles in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.A. Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice

 

• Students will apply the multicultural competencies in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.B. Social and Cultural Identities and Experiences

 

• Students will learn assessment content and skills in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.G. Assessment and Diagnostic Processes

 

• Students will learn diagnostic content and skills in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.G. Assessment and Diagnostic Processes

 

• Students will learn counseling theoretical approaches related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.E. Counseling Practice and Relationships

 

• Students will learn counseling developmental approaches related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.C. Lifespan Development

 

• Students will learn career counseling theories and approaches related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.D. Career Development

 

• Students will learn research skills and strategies related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 70%.
  • CACREP Core 3.H. Research and Program Evaluation

 

• Students will learn individual clinical skills and strategies in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 80%.
  • CACREP Core 3.E. Counseling Practice and Relationships

 

• Students will learn group skills and strategies in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rate at or above 80%.
  • CACREP Core 3.F. Group Counseling and Group Work

 

• Students will demonstrate skills in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at six points in time using the Counselors Competency Scale - Revised with a success rate at or above 80%.
  • CACREP Core 3.E. Counseling Practice and Relationships

 

• Students will demonstrate professional dispositions in the practice of counseling related to their concentration that will be measured at six points in time using the Counselors Competency Scale - Revised with a success rate at or above 80%.
  • CACREP Core 2.C.2.a.b.c. Individual Student Assessment

 

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Concentration

• Students will demonstrate content knowledge related to the Clinical Mental Health Counseling concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rateof 70% or higher.
  • CACREP Section 5.C. Clinical Mental Health Counseling

 

• Students will demonstrate skills in the practice of counseling related to the Clinical Mental Health Counseling concentration that will be measured at six points in time using the Counselors Competency Scale - Revised with a success rate at or above 80%.
  • CACREP Section 5.C. Clinical Mental Health Counseling

 

• Students will demonstrate professional dispositions in the practice of counseling related to the Clinical Mental Health Counseling concentration that will be measured at six points in time using the Counselors Competency Scale - Revised with a success rate at or above 80%.

• • CACREP Section 5.C. Clinical Mental Health Counseling

School Counseling Concentration

• Students will demonstrate content knowledge related to the School Counseling concentration that will be measured at two points in time with a success rateof 70% or higher.
  • CACREP Section 5.H. School Counseling 

 

• Students will demonstrate skills in the practice of counseling related to the School Counseling concentration that will be measured at six points in time using the Counselors Competency Scale - Revised with a success rate at or above 80%.
  • CACREP Section 5.H. School Counseling 

 

• Students will demonstrate professional dispositions in the practice of counseling related to the School Counseling concentration that will be measured at six points in time using the Counselors Competency Scale - Revised with a success rate at or above 80%.

• • CACREP Section 5.H. School Counseling 

 

Program Review

Every year program faculty members, current students, alumni, and the Counseling Advisory Committee assess and evaluate the mission, purpose, goal, and objectives for the Counseling Program at ULM. These above statements guide the curriculum.

Acquired information is considered along with accreditation standards by regional and professional accrediting bodies, public policy changes that occur in the state of Louisiana or at the federal level that impact the profession, shifts in the field of practice as we know it, and new research findings pertinent to the profession. Information thus acquired is integrated into the curricula as appropriate.

 

Updated October, 2024 by the Program faculty, current students, and the Counseling Advisory Committee.