School Counseling - Loma Linda University

School Counseling from Loma Linda University is a Campus Certificate Counseling and Personnel Services degree that prepares you for a Education career. Mission statement The School Counseling Certificate program is congruent with Loma Linda University's vision of transforming lives through whole person health care. The department supports University values of compassion, integrity, excellence, freedom, justice, purity, and humility. These attributes are depicted by the Good Samaritan sculpture in the heart of campus, which contrasts human indifference and ethnic pride with empathy and service. Our mission is to bring health, healing, wholeness, and hope to individuals, families, and communities, through education , research, clinical training, community service, and global outreach. Professional school counseling Professional School Counseling emerged a century ago as communities of multi-generational families were transformed through war, urbanization, industrialization, immigration, compulsory education, increasing career choices, and other societal changes that brought about the need for mental health services . Providing counseling services through the schools was a logical extension of the family. Teachers and student support staff were responsible for children while they were in the school???s care. Throughout the United States, professional school counseling has continued to grow as an integral part of the educational system. Its focus is threefold: 1) personal and social development of students, 2) their academic achievement and success, and 3) career interest, exploration, and preparation. In addition to working with students on campus, professional school counselors serve as consultants for school administrators, faculty, staff, parents, community leaders, and other professionals who work with and for students. The role of professional school counselors varies with the district and grade levels ranging from preschool through college and university. Program learning outcomes School Counseling Candidates will: 1. Integrate counseling concepts and skills with a personal epistemology 2. Demonstrate counseling interventions based upon a broad range of theoretical and legal/ethical frameworks through comprehensive written examination 3. Develop identity as a counselor through membership and participation in professional organizations 4. Satisfactorily complete six hundred (600) clock hours of supervised practicum in counseling 5. Meet all university qualifications for the California Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPS) in School Counseling, which is issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) View more details on Loma Linda University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Counseling and Personnel Services courses.