Counselor Education - Georgia Southern University

Counselor Education from Georgia Southern University is a Campus Specialist Counseling and Personnel Services degree that prepares you for a Education career. Mission The Counselor Education Program at Georgia Southern teaches that individuals have an innate drive toward growth, health, and adjustment. The application of the knowledge base is seen as the process of enhancing or facilitating normal growth and development in a dynamic society that is multicultural and global. Students in the program look at growth and change patterns as applied to both self and others. The program prepares students to be reflective learners so that they may better able to understand and help others directly, and indirectly as advocates in providing programs and services which assist others in their development. Graduates employed as student services professionals or as counselors within schools or agency settings, address affective, cognitive, and behavioral concerns of their clientele, and facilitate the development and/or adjustment of those they serve. Vision The Counselor Education Program is for students who serve their communities, their institutions, and their professions as school and community counselors and student service professionals. By 2010, the program will prepare professionals at the masters, specialist , and Doctoral levels. The program will have Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) or meet other sets of national standards as approved preparation programs in school counseling, community counseling , and student services . Counselors will help public education , community agencies, and post secondary institutions meet their demands for excellence across a wide range of competencies as applied to a more diverse population. Counseling professionals will collaborate with all educators and service providers in devising means to develop and maintain those climates and individual characteristics that foster intellectual, academic, social, and emotional development among a broad clientele in an increasingly pluralistic society. View more details on Georgia Southern University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Counseling and Personnel Services courses.