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Wake up Counselors!
Restoring Counseling Services for Troubled Teens
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2013
Summary
Providing individual and group counseling for secondary school students was once a major priority for secondary school counselors. However, many guidance programs have abandoned this role, and counselors have become quasi-administrators who spend most of their time scheduling students for classes, managing mandated testing programs, resolving discipline issues, and advising students on college admissions. Counseling students on personal and well-being issues takes up a very small part of the time.
In many school districts, social workers, student assistance counselors, and school psychologists have taken over the counseling duties. Critical issues are now causing school leaders to consider reorganizing school guidance staff so there is a cadre of counselors trained and charged with the mission of providing individual and group counseling for troubled teens. First, the number of troubled teens arriving at the schoolhouse door looking for help has exploded. Second, budget cuts have eliminated or drastically curtailed many of the services of social workers, student assistance counselors, and psychologists.
The result? Many once open doors for help are now closed, and schools' counseling services are failing many students, parents, and educators in need of intervention. This book provides a new model in which well-trained counselors can once again regain their historic role in counseling troubled teens, parents, and training staff and students on the front lines to act -- not look the other way -- when they observe a student heading towards the margins of school life.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-61048-818-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-61048-820-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
123
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Table of Contents No access
1 The Impact of the Demise of Personal Counseling Services in Our Schools No access Pages 1 - 18
2 Personal Counseling for Troubled Students Never Gained a Foothold in School Guidance Programs No access Pages 19 - 40
3 A Profession in Search of a Model for Change No access Pages 41 - 48
4 The Profession Is Not Dead Yet No access Pages 49 - 64
5 The Personal Counselor as Observer and Reporter of Student Behavior No access Pages 65 - 74
6 The Role of the Personal Counselor as Adviser to the Principal No access Pages 75 - 94
7 Selling the Personal Counseling Role with a Successful Intervention Program No access Pages 95 - 106
8 Personal Counselors Cannot Solve All the Problems of Troubled Students No access Pages 107 - 120
