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A. Professional identity, and ethical and professional standards
1. Ethical/Legal Standards and Policy: Demonstrates knowledge and application of
ethical concepts, and awareness of legal issues regarding professional activities with
individuals, groups, and organizations
a. Knowledge of ethical, legal and professional standards and
guidelines: Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of relevant
ethical/professional codes, standards and guidelines, laws, statutes, rules, and
regulations
b. Awareness and application of ethical decision making: Recognizes situations that
challenge adherence to professional values and applies an ethical decision-making
model to ethical dilemmas
c. Ethical Conduct: Integrates ethical values into professional conduct
2. Professional Values and Attitudes: Exhibits behavior and comportment that reflect the
values and attitudes of counseling and psychology
a. Evidences adherence to professional values throughout professional work
b. Demonstrates understanding of counseling and psychological practice as an applied
behavioral science
c. Maintains professionally appropriate communication and conduct across different
settings
d. Assesses personal accountability and accepts responsibility for own actions
e. Demonstrates concern for the welfare of others
f. Displays an appropriately defined professional identity
B. Evidence-based theories and practice of counseling and psychotherapy
1. Knowledge: Demonstrates knowledge of individual and group theories of counseling
and psychotherapy consistent with program orientation and goals
2. Relationships: Relates effectively with individuals, groups, and communities
a. Forms and maintains productive and respectful relationships with clients,
peers/colleagues, supervisors, and professionals from within and across disciplines
b. Negotiates differences and handles conflict satisfactorily
c. Provides effective feedback to others, receives feedback non-defensively, and
integrates feedback appropriately
d. Communicates clearly using verbal, nonverbal, and written skills in a professional
context; demonstrates clear understanding and use of professional language
3. Intervention: Applies evidence-based intervention and prevention strategies designed
to alleviate suffering and to promote health and well-being of individuals, groups, and/or
organizations (e.g., career, group, family, and/or systems-level interventions)
a. Formulates and conceptualizes cases; plans and implements interventions
utilizing at least one consistent theoretical orientation
b. Displays skills in developing the therapeutic alliance
c. Evaluates intervention progress and modifies intervention or prevention
strategies on the basis of evaluation of clients’ or groups’ progress and/or client
feedback
C. Multiculturalism and diversity
Demonstrates knowledge, self-awareness, and skills in working with individuals,
groups, and communities who represent various cultural and personal
backgrounds and characteristics
1. Knowledge and Self-Awareness:
a. Demonstrates knowledge and awareness of self, as shaped by individual and
cultural diversity (e.g., cultural, individual, and role differences, including
those based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national
origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic
status) and context.
b. Demonstrates knowledge and awareness of others, as shaped by individual and
cultural diversity and context.
2. Skills: Applies knowledge of self and others as cultural beings in assessment,
treatment, consultation, and all other professional interactions; is able to work
effectively with diverse individuals in assessment, treatment, and consultation.
D. Theories of psychopathology and relevant classification systems
1. Knowledge:
a. Demonstrates knowledge of theories of psychopathology, including but not
limited to, biological and sociocultural theories
b. Demonstrates knowledge of classification systems of behavior and evaluates
limitations of those systems
2. Skills: Applies concepts of normal/abnormal behavior to case formulation,
diagnosis, and treatment planning in the context of stages of human development
and diversity
E. Tests, measurements, and other assessments of behavior
1. Knowledge:
a. Demonstrates knowledge of content, reliability and validity, and purposes of
assessment measures frequently used by counselors and psychological
practitioners.
b. Evaluates strengths and limitations (including cultural limitations) of
administration, scoring, and interpretation of assessment measures.
2. Skills: Selects and utilizes appropriate assessment measures across domains of
functioning, practice settings, and cultural groups.
F. Research methods and program evaluation
1. Knowledge:
a. Demonstrates knowledge of scientific methods commonly used by counselors
and psychology practitioners in their clinical work
b. Demonstrates knowledge of use of scientific methods to add to the knowledge
base of counseling and psychology
c. Demonstrates knowledge of application of scientific methods to evaluating
practices, interventions, and programs
2. Skills: Critiques published research effectively
G. Career development and/or the role of work in peoples’ lives
1. Demonstrates knowledge of the role of work in peoples’ lives
2. Demonstrates understanding of the development of work and career
choices across the life span
H. Biological basis of behavior
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the relationship between biological
factors and human functioning
I. Developmental basis of behavior
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of human development, wellness, and
learned bases of behavior across the lifespan.
J. Social/organizational/community basis of behavior
Demonstrates knowledge of individuals in the context of their environment and how the
environment (e.g., geographical, ideological, demographic, familial, institutional) affects
functioning. Demonstrates understanding of the use of systems changes (whether by
prevention or intervention) to enhance the functioning of individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and/or institutions.
K. Understanding and use of supervision during applied experiences
1. Knowledge: Demonstrates understanding of the role and practice of
supervision.
2. Skills:
a. Responds appropriately to supervision
b. Engages in reflective practices by synthesizing supervisor feedback and
experience in applied work
c. Engages in appropriate self-care strategies
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