Four Theories Of School Counseling Paper

Theories within School Counseling
Schooling teaches students a variety of different theories that can be applied to counseling, but once in the field are those theories actually being applied? This is the question I tend to ask while learning the different theories. To gain a little insight into a professional’s approaches in the actual field of school counseling, I asked a school counselor a few questions about her experiences and approaches thus far. Every school, student, and counselor are different so one must keep that in mind. Inside Look of a School Counselor
I reached out through email to a school counselor that I have previously shadowed before. Karly is a 7th grade counselor at RSM intermediate school. She has only been working as a school counselor for a year now, so she was fairly new to the whole experience. Through this informal email conversation, I was able to gain a bit of insight at her approaches to counseling. I began by asking her how she approaches students in general and how she goes about trying to make change within the students. Karly mentioned that it is a benefit to being a younger counselor because the …show more content…
When learning about the different theories, there were quite a few that I was unsure of how they related to school counseling. The approaches that I assumed I would most likely use, were similar to Karly’s approaches. I think Person-Centered will be used frequently, along with being integrated with other techniques. Personally, I believe that Person-Centered Theory is the foundation to all the other approaches. I also felt reassurance knowing that Karly uses SFBT because I think that the majority of the students that come into the counselor’s office will need guidance to the solutions to their problems. With this approach, a counselor will help guide the student to find a fix to their issue