咨询理学硕士

孟菲斯大学的咨询计划致力于：为学生提供以学习者为中心的环境，让他们参与体验式学习活动，同时也促进学生发展自我保健和自我反省的做法，这将支持他们作为研究生以外的辅导员的持续成功学校。通过提高自我意识和对人的尊严和多样性的尊重，培养多元文化的能力和社会正义。对道德和称职的咨询师进行培训，使其具有一定的技能，这些技能应以循证实践为基础，以便与他们所居住的各种社区互动。协助新兴的咨询师建立专业的咨询师身份，重视以发展，基于优势的健康方法来帮助客户提高生活质量。
The Master’s degree programs in Counseling prepare entry level counseling professionals with a broad knowledge base in fundamental socialbehavioral science (human development, learning and cognition, personality theory, and emerging research on visible ethnic populations and gender differences), counseling and helping skills (individual and group counseling, and assessment), research and evaluation tools, and professional identity, role and function. The concentrations in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling are accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling concentration is accredited by the Council of Rehabilitation Counseling (CORE).<br><br>Program objectives are: (1) comprehension of concepts and theories underlying the profession of counseling; (2) ability to collect, analyze, and interpret individual and group data, and to generate and test hypothesis related to human behavior; (3) ability to effectively counsel in both individual and group settings: (4) ability to formulate, implement, and evaluate appropriate counseling programs and interventions; (5) ability to understand and demonstrate ethical behavior and the legal and ethical implications of that behavior; and (6) development of sensitivity and understanding of the needs of persons who are culturally different, including the ability to (a) examine attitudes and myths regarding the culturally different client and (b) the sociopolitical forces impacting the culturally different client.