CPSY Program Goals and Related Objectives and Competencies

GOAL #1

Produce graduates who are grounded in the Scientist Practitioner training model

Students will be knowledgeable of the foundational areas in psychology and counseling psychology.

Competency 1a – Goal 1 Students can integrate and convey information in the core areas of Counseling Psychology
Competency 1b – Goal 1 Students demonstrate knowledge in the core psychological science topic areas (e.g., developmental, biological, cognitive/affective, and social aspects of behavior, history of the discipline of psychology).
Competency 1c – Goal 1: Students know how to administer and score a range of vocational, cognitive, and personality assessments, and write integrated reports based on those assessments

Prepare students to be critical consumers of research and to conduct original scholarship.

Competency 2a – Goal 1: Students demonstrate ability to critically evaluate scholarly products and identify flaws and strengths.
Competency 2b – Goal 1: Students demonstrate the ability to design and complete empirical studies independently, with faculty mentors, or as members of a research team and present scholarship via professional presentations, publications, or presentations to lay audiences.

Students are able to integrate current scientific knowledge and theory and clinical practice.

Competency 3a – Goal 1: Students can integrate knowledge of individual, group, vocational, and family theories into their clinical work.
Competency 3b – Goal 1: Students can demonstrate knowledge and developmentally appropriate skills in providing clinical supervision.
Competency 3c – Goal 1: Students can locate scholarly literature relevant to their client populations and integrate it into clinical work
Competency 3d – Goal 1: Students effectively deliver interventions with client populations

Students are able to identify and respond to ethical and legal issues that may arise in their work as counseling psychologists.

Competency 4a – Goal 1: Students can articulate relevant APA ethical guidelines when presented with vignettes on ethical issues.
Competency 4b – Goal 1: Students can discuss the Tennessee legal code that governs the practice of psychology.
Competency 4c – Goal 1: Students can identify and discuss professional and ethical issues that occur on clinical sites (including client and agency-related issues) where they are completing practica experiences

Students demonstrate professional behavior in their various roles as counseling psychologists.

Competency 5a – Goal 1: Maintain appropriate professional relations with faculty, departmental and clinical site staff, and student colleagues.
Competency 5b – Goal 1: Students are responsive to corrective feedback.
Competency 5c – Goal 1: Students manifest appropriate professional behavior as determined by clinical or work sites (timeliness, dress, compliance with regulations).

Produce graduates who identify as Counseling Psychologists

Students will understand the history and professional issues related to Counseling Psychology.

Competency 1a – Goal 2: Students demonstrate knowledge of the history and core values of Counseling Psychology and key professional issues facing the specialty of Counseling Psychology and the larger discipline.

Students will develop a professional identity as a Counseling Psychologist and begin to be active participants in the profession of psychology.

Competency 2a – Goal 2: Students are members in SAS/APAGS or other professional organizations.
Competency 2b – Goal 2: Students demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and growth as counseling psychologists through their work with Counseling Psychology faculty/supervisors in research and program activities.
Competency 2c – Goal 2: Students will identify as Counseling Psychologists

Produce graduates who are responsive to individual and cultural diversity in a multicultural environment

Students understand the contribution of cultural and individual diversity in clinical and scholarly work

Competency 1a – Goal 3: Students understand their own cultural background and how it shapes their perspectives and behaviors.
Competency 1b – Goal 3: Students can synthesize the literature regarding multiple identities (gender, race/ethnicity, orientation, social class, ability, religion) and apply it to their clients.
Competency 1c – Goal 3: Students intervene effectively with diverse client populations in urban settings.