Student Learning Item Selected and Title, Description, and Reason for Selection

Outcome Course in which it was

Developed
I.a: Students Item: Mini Law and Title: Counseling Services for Seniors
demonstrate knowledge Advocacy Project
and skills associated Course: CNS 780 - Description: Short paper about about the lack of mental
with professional, Professional, ethical, and health care available to seniors and potential advocacy steps.
ethical, and legal legal issues in
counseling activities. counseling Reason: This assignment included utilizing research and
advocacy to better understand and address an important
ethical and legal issue in counseling.

I.b: Students possess Item: Personal-Cultural Title: Personal-Cultural Analysis and Identity Development
awareness of themselves Analysis Paper
and an ability to self- Course: CNS 747 - Description: Consider identity develop through the context
evaluate. Cultures and Counseling of cultural heritage for the purpose of working with diverse
groups of people.

Reason: One of the most needed areas for self awareness

within counseling relates to my cultural identity and the
identity of my clients. This assignment was massively
important for increasing insight into my way of being in the
world.

II.a: Students Item: Soap Note and Title: Soap Note and Literature Review
demonstrate knowledge Literature Review
and skills associated Course: CNS 747 - Description: Create a cultural sensitive soap note grounded
with working with Cultures and Counseling in the literature along with a comprehensive literature that
culturally diverse addresses cultural components of the note.
populations.
Reason: This assignment required the application of cultural
knowledge related to working with diverse populations. In
addition, the research component demanded that I acquire
knowledge and synthesize that information in order to
effectively conceptualize cases.

III.a: Students apply Item: Genogram Paper Title: Genogram Insights

their knowledge of Course: CNS 773 -
human growth and Family Counseling Description: Draw a three generational diagram of my
development to their family and discuss insights related to the diagram.
conceptualization of and
work with clients. Reason: This assignment, in addition to helping me
understand my heritage, also gave me insight into my
upbringing and my parent's upbringing and how that shaped
our development as children and adolescents.
IV.a: Students apply Item: Career Title: Career Autobiography
their knowledge of Autobiography
career development to Course: CNS 743 - Description: Reflection paper highlighting my personal
their conceptualization Career Development and career development and insights I've gleaned from career
of and work with clients. Counseling counseling class that apply to my own journey.

Reason: It was very useful to write out my entire career

history and pull together data from resumes, cover letters,
and former application essays. Pulling in the knowledge we
learned about various career development concepts made it
even more effective.

V.a: Students Item: Special Topics Title: Treatment Considerations for Major Depressive
demonstrate their use of Paper Disorder
evidence-based Course: CNS 762 -
counseling strategies Issues in Clinical Mental Description: Paper covering an area of clinical interest
and Health Counseling including a case study, advocacy opportunities, and
techniques to develop ethical/legal issues.
and sustain therapeutic
relationships. Reason: This paper was profoundly helpful in giving me a
process for how to consider working with new populations
from an evidence-based perspective, including using
research to understand etiology, symptoms, treatment, and
how to build relationships with clients.

V.b: Students Item: Theoretical Title: Integrating Theory through the Ways Paradigm
demonstrate knowledge Orientation Essay
and skills associated Course: CNS 741 - Description: Essay describing an original artifact/model
with their use of Theories and Models of representing our theoretical orientation.
counseling theories to Counseling
form case Reason: By incorporating the Ways Paradigm, I was able to
conceptualizations. apply multiple theories to my work with clients and
conceptualize cases in a more clear and comprehensive way.

VI.a: Students Item: Group Plan Title: Meditation Focus Group with Counseling Students
demonstrate their ability Proposal
to apply group Course: CNS 742 - Description: Create a detailed rationale and plan for a
knowledge and skills to Group Procedures in counseling group of my choosing.
the Counseling
development and Reason: This project required utilizing everything I had
implementation of learned from class, the textbook, and my research to develop
groups. a meaningful and effective group plan.
VII.a: Students Item: Research Project Title: Cliftonstrengths: A Counseling Student's Perspective
demonstrate knowledge Presentation
and skills in the Course: CNS 736 - Description: Choose an assessment instrument,
administration and Appraisal Procedures for comprehensively research it, and develop a presentation
interpretation of Counselors about it.
assessment instruments
for diagnostic and Reason: This was a fun and educational project because I
intervention-planning was able to research an assessment that I had personal
purposes. experience with. I was also able to glean alot from
classmates' presentations regarding how to administer and
interpret a variety of different tests and assessments.

VIII.a: Students utilize Item: Discussion Post Title: Perspectives on Diagnosis

current research and Course: CNS 770 -
scholarly literature to Classification of Mental Description: Short research essay identifying perspectives
inform and assess their and Emotional Disorders on diagnosis in the literature.
counseling practice.
Reason: While diagnosis is a crucial component for
effective treatment in many cases, the literature presents a
wide and diverse set of viewpoints on how best to apply
diagnosis and why it's more or less necessary in counseling
practice. This assignment helped me flesh out the various
perspectives and better understand how diagnosing applies
to my work.

IX.a: Students Item: Consultation Case Title: Mental Health Consulting Case Project
demonstrate knowledge Study
and skills associated Course: CNS 786 - Description: Create rationale, case study, and literature
with designing, Consultation and review for a mental health case of my choosing.
delivering, and Program Development in
evaluating school Counseling Reason: I was able to research, design, and plan an
counseling programs implementation strategy for a mental health program at an
that integrate and inpatient hospital that was in line with their needs and goals.
support the school’s
overall mission.