Model

The Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences subscribes to a colleague model of education where both students and faculty bring knowledge and experience to share. The model is active-horizontal with emphasis on partnership and learning rather than passive-vertical with emphasis on expertise and teaching. It parallels the client-centered learning paradigm that student-colleagues may ultimately bring to their own clients for overcoming dysfunctional habits through self-regulation learning. Education becomes a two-way enterprise, an essential ingredient to a truly multidisciplinary endeavor. The Professional School model embraces students as colleagues in exploration and innovation.