Books A Description Of Selected Perceptions Regarding An Effective Junior High School Counseling Program (PDF-Download) (2024)

FAQs

What makes an effective school counseling program? ›

Strategies to Consider

The most effective counseling programs focus comprehensively on academic, social-emotional, and postsecondary domains in addition to being preventative and using data to better target student needs.

A comprehensive school counseling program (CSCP) has six qualities that make it an effective program. To be comprehensive a school counseling program must be holistic, systemic, balanced, proactive, infused into academic curriculum, and reflective.

ASCA Position

School counselors deliver school counseling programs that enhance student growth in three domain areas: academic, career, and social/emotional development.

Outcome data best highlights the results of your intervention because it relates to how the intervention affected identified goals, areas of growth and achievement gaps. This may include attendance numbers, number of students struggling academically, absenteeism in the school or discipline referrals.

The framework of a school counseling program consists of the following four components: define, manage, deliver and assess. See “The ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs” for more detailed information.

Be respectful and non-judgmental

As a counselor, you must respect each client's beliefs and struggles, and never assert your personal values or beliefs. Self-disclosure must be used appropriately and in necessary situations to further build out the therapeutic relationship.

The five bedrock principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and fidelity are each vital in and of themselves to a healthy counseling relationship. By exploring an ethical dilemma with regard to these principles, a counselor may come to a better understanding of the conflicting issues.

The effective implementation of comprehensive school counseling services to all students is premised on the ASCA National Model framework themes of leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and systemic change. The school counselor's role is to support the academic, career and social-emotional development of all students.

According to the school counseling program evaluation literature, this leader- ship responsibility is explained as it relates to four major evaluation areas commonly associated with comprehensive school counseling programs: program audit, results-based assessment, personnel review, and needs assessment.

How to grow as a school counselor? ›

High school counselors typically hold a bachelor's degree in counseling, psychology or other related field, a master's degree in counseling and a state-issued license to practice.

Academic Development

Student success is the goal for all school counseling programs and academic success is a major part of that.

A school counseling program recommends counselors spend most of their time in direct service to and contact with students. Therefore, school counselors' duties are focused on the overall delivery of the total program through guidance curriculum, individual student planning and responsive services.

The framework of the ASCA National Model consists of four components: define, manage, deliver and assess.

Listening. First and foremost, a school counselor needs to be a good listener. Often, they have several students they work with and may get very few chances to converse with them in a one on one setting. “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood,” said Ralph G.