Program Mission
The University of West Alabama’s mission statement for the Counseling Program is unique in that it strives to provide a brighter future for individuals, families, and communities. By training emerging counselors to:
- Celebrate creativity, knowledge, & diversity.
- Teach students to view counseling as both an art and a science by providing them with the practical tools and knowledge to help facilitate change.
- Provide students with cultural experiences to help them grow into culturally competent practitioners.
- Advocate for client well-being through innovation and collaboration.
- Involving the clients in learning the resources by student involvement in providing resources in students to foster lifelong learning.
- Provide clinical skills needed to provide a wide variety of counseling services while maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards.
- Train students in knowledge and application skills that support multiple counseling service needs in a framework of national, state, and local ethical and professional standards.
- Encourage students to lead productive, responsible, and enriched lives.
Program Objectives
CACREP Professional Identity Standard |
UWA Program Objective |
Professional Orientation and Identity |
PLO 1 - Professional Orientation and Ethical Practice |
Social and Cultural Diversity |
PLO 2 – Social and Cultural Diversity |
Human Growth and Development |
PLO 3 - Human Growth and Development |
Career Development |
PLO 4 – Career Development |
Helping Relationships |
PLO 5 - Helping Relationships |
Group Work |
PLO 6 – Group Work |
Assessment |
PLO 7 – Assessment |
Research and Program Evaluation |
PLO 8 – Research and Program Evaluation |