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The mission of the Division of Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Interpreter Training is to educate, develop and train counseling and psychology professionals by utilizing the highest external standards set by state and national licensing/certifying boards. Counselor education faculty design and deliver counseling programs through a variety of instructional modalities. The counseling degree programs provide graduate education at regional and state locations. The program seeks students from diverse populations.

Goals and Objectives

Students graduating from Troy University’s counseling programs should:

• Obtain knowledge and understanding of the identity, roles, history, philosophy, credentials, licensure, legal/ethical, current trends, practices, supervision models, collaboration-crisis-trauma concepts, and self-care strategies related to the counseling profession.
• Gain knowledge and understanding of program evaluation and research methodology to include application, evaluation and analysis of quality research and effective counseling programs.
• Develop personal and professional dispositions to effectively analyze and evaluate ethical, legal, diverse, and best practice issues related to the counseling profession.
• Develop counseling abilities to analyze, evaluate. Apply and create treatment methodologies, therapeutic interventions, assessment techniques, effective cultural strategies, and other abilities that apply to the practice of counseling in school, agency clinical and community settings.
• Demonstrate analysis, evaluation and application of core counseling concepts as applied to the knowledge of professional identity and practice.

The General Counseling Program is designed to train social service providers. This 36-semester-hour program has been tailored to meet needs of individuals interested in providing social services in settings that do not require licensure.

The program is designed to provide students with knowledge of theory and application of counseling skills particularly as it relates to providing general counseling.