SCP Mission & Values
(Archived 02/29/2024)
MISSION
We cultivate a “home” for all counseling psychology professionals and affiliates to connect, to collaborate, and to coordinate efforts toward creating a more just and equitable world where ALL people and communities can thrive. Our members share a commitment to a holistic psychological perspective that is strengths-based, person- and community-centered, systems-oriented, contextually aware, multiculturally inclusive, socially just, and integrative of vocational and lifespan issues. We promote this perspective within the field of psychology and in the public sector through practice, research, education and training, advocacy, consultation, and leadership.
VALUES
SCP espouses a common set of specific values that guide our work. We believe in:
- Empowering people to improve their lives, reach their potential, and move toward self-actualization by building upon their strengths;
- Promoting psychological functioning and resilience beyond ameliorating pathology by using effective psychological interventions that attend to development, prevention, vocation, and health across the lifespan;
- Considering context, systems, and intersecting social identities in conceptualizing individuals, communities, problems, and interventions;
- Conducting psychological assessment that is clinically astute, culturally sensitive, strengths-based, and contextualized;
- Fostering theory and research that rely on diverse methods and approaches, are contextualized and culturally sensitive, and are recognized as a potential tool of social change;
- Producing science that is informed by practice and practice that is informed by science;
- Emphasizing effective education, training, mentoring, and supervision as fundamental to promoting the values and future of the profession;
- Engaging in critical self-reflection to foster insight, growth, and well-being in ourselves and others;
- Centering marginalized voices in respectful and intentional communication to achieve shared understandings and goals for the society and the profession;
- Addressing systemic oppression and eliminating health disparities by engaging in social justice advocacy with individuals and communities that have been stigmatized, ostracized, marginalized, or ignored;
- Developing and implementing research, practice, training, and policies that are culturally relevant and sensitive to the needs of international populations and organizations;
- Modeling ethical understanding and decision making; and
- Engaging in and modeling leadership that is learning-focused, flexible and adaptive, collaborative, multiculturally inclusive, contextually sensitive, attentive to mentoring, and responsive to the needs of contemporary organizations and
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