The Master of Science in Counseling Program offers two specialty degrees that will prepare students for licensure as Professional Counselors or for certification as School Counselors. The Evangel University Counseling Program trains graduate students to become professional counselors who integrate their Christian faith while providing holistic and ethical counseling services to diverse individuals
and groups across the lifespan.
1. Christian Integration: Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to integrate Christian principles as the foundation for reflective, caring, and ethical counseling practice.
2. Professional Identity and Ethics: Demonstrate an understanding of professional counseling through knowledge and practice of ethical, legal, and responsible counseling services.
3. Counseling Theory: Demonstrate knowledge and application of major counseling theories and to individual and group counseling services.
4. Helping Relationships: Demonstrate knowledge and application of effective counseling techniques in order to assist individuals and groups achieve treatment goals.
5. Social and Cultural Diversity: Demonstrate an awareness of social and cultural influences on the human experience and the skills needed for culturally sensitive interventions and policies.
6. Human Growth and Development: Demonstrate knowledge of basic human development and its impact on the human experience and counseling process.
7. Career Counseling: Demonstrate knowledge of career development theories and career assessment skills for the purpose of counseling individuals and groups.
8. Group Counseling: Demonstrate knowledge of group theory and process through didactic and experiential learning as well as the application of group counseling skills.
9. Research and Program Evaluation: Demonstrate the ability to read, critique, and evaluate professional research to inform appropriate counseling practice.
11. Psychodiagnostics: Demonstrate a working knowledge of psychopathology and the skills required to ethically formulate a psychodiagnosis and appropriate counseling interventions.