The Counseling for Christian Ministries major is for those who desire competency in counseling theory and principles. The program provides a conceptual framework for applications in the helping professions and occupations involving human management. The Counseling for Christian Ministries coursework is completed in a cohort, with the program requiring commitment to consecutive sessions. The major is distinctly an online curriculum with two required, intensive weekend courses at the Colorado Springs campus, one at the beginning and one at the end of the counseling year.

The CCM major fills a need for a bachelor-level degree program that integrates counseling, theology, and organizational development. It offers you the benefit of two distinguishing aspects
1. Focus on Excellence. You engage in a rigorous year of self-reflection and group process in a cohort model that combines two face-to-face intensives with online study.
2. Focus on Practitioner-Based Education. CCM instructors are Christian, highly educated, experienced professionals. You receive real-world instruction from licensed practitioners.

Learning Outcomes: What will I learn? The Counseling for Christian Ministries major is specifically designed to help you:
1. Know the basic counseling principles as they relate to individuals, families, human development, abnormal behavior, and organizations.
2. Identify basic counseling techniques.
3. Develop strategies for managing conflict within organizations.
4. Discern feelings in yourself and others in the counseling setting.

1. The program uses rubrics for assessing self-reflection and group process.
2. You take pre- and post-tests designed to measure your knowledge of counseling principles and your ability to reflect feelings in the counseling setting.
3. You complete an assessment of how well you can identify basic counseling techniques. 

Knowledge of counseling principles is measured by a Knowledge Assessment Test taken at the end of the major year. In a recent assessment, the Counseling for Christian Ministries cohort achieved 63% on the KAT, with the cohort scoring especially high in the tenets of Counseling and Christian Thought (73%), Marriage and Family Theories (85%), and Abnormal Psychology for Counseling (68%).

The ability to accurately discern feelings in the counseling setting is measured by the Reflective Feeling Assessment. In a recent RFA post-test, the Counseling for Christian Ministries cohort achieved an 8.5% improvement over the pre-test taken at the beginning of the major year.