KPI 1.1 – Professional Identity & Engagement. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the core elements of the counseling profession, the role of professional engagement for development, and the role of growth in professional roles and functions.

KPI 1.2 – Knowledge of Ethical Standards. Students will demonstrate knowledge of ethical codes of the major professional organizations and legal standards related to the profession of counseling.

KPI 1.3 – Ethical Decision Making and Practice. Students will apply the process of ethical decision making to counseling situations and cases, demonstrating consistent ethical practice and professionalism with clients and other professionals.

KPI 4.1 – Career Counseling. Students will demonstrate understanding of career development theories and decision-making models, career-related information resources, and knowledge of interrelationships among work, family, life roles, and multicultural issues to career counseling.

KPI 6 – Knowledge & Application of Assessment in Counseling. Students will demonstrate understanding of the philosophical and statistical properties of measurement instruments commonly used by counselors, accurately select assessments based on knowledge of content, reliability, and validity, and apply the process of assessment to client evaluation, client conceptualization, treatment planning, and selection of intervention strategies.

KPI 7 – Knowledge and Analysis of Research. Students will understand basic research design and statistical methodology, applying this knowledge tothe critique and analysis of counseling research to inform counseling practice.

KPI 5.1.1 – Knowledge of Group Theories. Students will demonstrate knowledge related to group development, dynamics, and theories.

KPI 5.1.2 – Knowledge & Application of Counseling Theory.  Students will understand various counseling theories & personality perspectives of the helping process, and appropriately apply counseling theory principles and related interventions to a diversity of populations and presenting issues.

KPI 5.2 – Interpersonal Counseling Skills.  Students will effectively apply and adapt micro counseling skills within the counseling process with individuals and groups, demonstrating the ability to form effective therapeutic alliances with clients, accurately assess and conceptualize client themes to utilize appropriate counseling process skills and interventions, and adjust counseling for culture and developmental issues across the lifespan.

KPI 5.3 – Personal & Professional Counselor Characteristics. Students will demonstrate a professional demeanor, form mature academic and professional relationships, an understanding of limitations of competence, a proactive and receptive attitude toward supervision with implementation of feedback, the continuous development and display of professional self-awareness skills, and responsibility. Students will demonstrate personal counselor characteristics through the continuous development and display of biopsychosocial and spiritual health, as evidenced by personal self-awareness skills, self-care skills, empathy, self-control, and integrity.

KPI 3.1 – Knowledge of Human Development & Psychopathology. Students will understand biopsychosocial development across ages and populations, including knowledge of personality, learning, differential & overlapping systems across major mental health classifications, theories of psychopathology, and effects of crises and resilience.

KPI 3.2 – Apply Knowledge of Human Development & Psychopathology to Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning. Students will apply knowledge of biopsychosocial development and psychopathology to identify emotional, behavioral, and cognitive manifestations of major mental illnesses for case conceptualization, counseling intervention, and treatment planning.

KPI 2.1 – Cultural Knowledge and Advocacy. Students will identify social trends, examine theories of multicultural counseling, identify culturally appropriate interventions and behaviors that promote optimal wellness for diverse groups, and explain the role of advocacy in the counseling profession.

KPI 2.2 – Cultural Awareness and Action. Students will understand personal and collective effects of cultural experience, engage in activities to enhance awareness of attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivity toward diverse individuals, and apply cultural awareness to clients and other professionals.

KPI 2.3 – KPI 2.3 Spiritual Development & Faith Integration. Students will understand their own process of spiritual development and faith in relation to the counseling process, and the application of faith integration to case conceptualization and counseling intervention skills.