Our Core Values
In concert with our Mission Statement, the Graduate Department of Counseling is committed to the following core values.
Relational Values
- Faith - Seeking spiritual integration, founded upon the Christian faith.
- Compassion - Responding to the needs of others, particularly the disenfranchised.
- Justice - Ensuring that everyone has a voice and that the vulnerable are protected.
- Equality - Honoring diversity and promoting acceptance while not compromising value systems.
- Respect - Acknowledging that the image of God remains stamped on the life of every person.
- Grace - Recognizing that grace is extended to all and is to be expressed towards all.
- Forgiveness - Taking responsibility to forgive and be forgiven.
Clinical/Professional Values
- Holistic paradigm - Having a worldview that embraces all facets of people, including spiritual, psychological, relational, cultural, and physical.
- Academic excellence - Striving for and maintaining an educational environment of distinction.
- Clinical competence - Maintaining clinical standards that are healing, professionally acknowledged, and evidence-based.
- Systemic perspective - Understanding human beings as functioning within an ecology comprised of complex relational and social systems.
- Professional health - Pursuing self-awareness and self-care.
- Ethical/legal standards - Promoting integrity and protecting the well-being and safety of students and clients.
- Growth oriented - Establishing an ethos that is strengths-based, growth promoting, and preventative.
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