School counselor

There are four main components of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model, which include the foundation, management, delivery, and accountability (ASCA, 2012). Through collaborative efforts, the foundation helps to build the focus of the school counseling program, identifies what students should gain because of the program, identifies what school counselors should be doing to support the program, and ethical considerations that create a program that will not cause harm to…

almost approaching at New High School as I received notification from all the teachers indicating which students were failing their grades. I started to make arrangement to meet individually with each student to discuss their grades and try to problem solve how to best help each student to raise their grades. The following days I started spending the majority of the time with some students. It was M.L.’s turns, he was a freshman and it was his first time being at the school counselor’s office to…

would not pay bills, cook dinner, clean or even participate in taking care of his own children. It was always a “mom’s job”. If we ever needed anything, we had to go to mom. She was the one that took us to appointments, concerts, shopping, and even school. After decades of this and several counseling sessions, my parents finally decided to end their marriage. They have gone to counseling three times in the last twenty years. The marriage counseling never worked because my father would always…

provided by guidance counselors, as being an essential building block for many students academic success (Effectiveness of School Counseling, 2007). As counseling service becoming a key component within education, understanding and evaluating research methodologies within this field is more valuable than ever. According the Merriam-Webster, research is defined as an experimentation directed to discover and interpret data to accept or deny a given theory. The American School Counseling…

University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Department of School Administration and Counseling. The purpose of the workshop was to help Practicum and Internship students learn about the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Exam (CPCE) and the National Counseling Exam (NCE). The presenter, Dr. Ki Chae gave an overview of the material on both exams. Dr. Chae explained that all Clinical Mental Health Counseling students and all Professional School Counseling students are required to take the CPCE…

For my service learning placement, I am giving time to the guidance counselor, Mr. Berns, at Orchard Hill Elementary. His job works with children in kindergarten to sixth grade. He provides support to others through difficult situations, supplements education on living a healthy mental and emotional lifestyle, and addresses any issues that are causing a barrier to a student’s everyday learning. Although I have only been volunteering here for a few weeks, I believe I have had the opportunity to…

unless they can feel that sense of trust and that, “Sometimes you are unable to get these students to talk and you feel like you failed” (personal communication, July 7, 2015). Wendy talked about how important it is to have support systems within the school and home to help cope with those feelings of failure. Next, Wendy talked about the students with serious mental health issues or behavioral problems as a difficult population to work with. Depending on their behaviors she has felt violated in…

well into early adulthood, I often thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up. For many years, I wanted to be a veterinarian and help animals heal. At other times I wanted to be a teacher and work with children. During high school, I wanted to be a school counselor and help “troubled” students like myself. There always seemed to be so many options, and making the choice was daunting. I have evaluated my life at different stages, adopting values and gaining insight along the way through…

Throughout my service learning placement, I have been absorbing information to answer my curiosities within the position of an elementary guidance counselor. Although I have not been strictly recording data to gather for Orchard Hill Elementary School, I have been observing the factors of guidance counseling through the lens of a formative evaluation. According to the text by Darling and Cassidy, a formative evaluation “Generates information for the purposes of planning, monitoring, and…

fortunate to be able to interview was Natalie Luna, a second-year Educational Counseling student at USC. Since August 2015, she has also been an Academic Coach for the Kortschak Center. Additionally, she has experience with guidance counseling in high schools, as well as at the career center at USC. Aside from work experience,…