The mission of the University of Missouri’s Counseling Psychology Program is to educate highly skilled, culturally sensitive professionals who adhere to the scientist-practitioner model and can conduct socially and globally relevant research, as well as teach and practice effectively in diverse domestic and international educational, public, and private settings with individuals of all ages and circumstances.

MU’s counseling psychology program strives for excellence in the integration of practice, science and diversity. Our training program has a strong scientist-practitioner training model which fosters student growth through professional identification. We are committed to multicultural and cross-cultural competence and social justiceand maintaining our values of mentoring and apprenticeship. We expect that students and faculty will work to create a climate of safety and trust for all concerns and to abide by the counseling psychology training program’s values statement.

The Counseling Psychology Program was one of the first counseling psychology programs to receive American Psychological Association (APA) accreditation and has been continuously accredited since 1953. Our doctoral program has achieved national and international recognition as a top ranked program. It has been consistently ranked as one of the best in the nation because of its exceptional research productivity, exemplary professional leadership, numerous journal editorships, rigorous and innovative pedagogy, the ability to recruit top graduate students from around the world and provide them with exceptional training and mentoring, and the production ofdoctorates who become faculty at other APA approved academic programs. Our cross cultural and multiculturalemphasis has been a particular strength over the past three decades, and in recent years, our faculty have been highly successful in securing external grants from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, and National Science Foundation.