Learning Outcomes

In Walden’s M.S. in Mental Health Counseling program, you will

1. Recognize the role of the counseling profession in the value and advancement of individuals, communities, and organizations.
2. Employ the professional counseling code of ethics.
3. Demonstrate cross-cultural competencies and skills.
4. Contribute to the advancement of mental health care for all citizens.
5. Analyze their place in the hierarchy of both social power and multiculturalism in relation to their counseling ethics, identity, and delivery of services.
6. Develop an appropriate skill competence for an identified theoretical model.
7. Deliver contextually appropriate counseling and remediation skills and interventions.
8. Establish identity through participation in professional state, regional, and national organizations.
9. Understand the counselor’s role as client-advocate with families, agencies, and institutions.
10. Effect positive social change as community leaders.
11. Collaborate with counseling instructors and other mental health professionals to present data and findings to the professional counseling community.