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What Do

Counselors
Do?
and not do
What I Dont Do (or Should Not Do)
Coordinate data entry of new
students

Perform disciplinary actions or
consequences

Teach classes when teachers
are absent

What I Dont Do (or Should Not Do)
Provide therapy or long term
counseling for students with
psychological disorders

Sign excuses for students who are
tardy

Serve as data entry clerk

What I Do
Individual Assessment
Individual Counseling
Group Guidance & Counseling
Career Assistance
Placement & Follow-up
Referral
Research
Evaluation & Accountability
Prevention

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT
Seeks to identify the characteristics and
potential of every client
A one-to-one
helping
relationship that
focuses on a
persons growth
and adjustment
and problem-
solving and
decision-making
needs
Effective counseling
requires counselors to
have not only the highest
levels of training and
professional skills but
also certain personality
traits.
Counseling programs will suffer in
effectiveness and credibility unless
counselors exhibit understanding,
warmth, humaneness, & positive
attitude toward humankind.
GROUP GUIDANCE
Group of activities that focus
on providing information or
experiences through planned
& organized group activity

Orientation groups, college
visitation days, homeroom
guidance

GROUP COUNSELING
Focuses on assisting counselees to cope
with their day-to-day adjustment and
development concerns
GROUP COUNSELING
Behavior modification, developing personal
relationship skills, concerns of human
sexuality, career decision-making
CAREER ASSISTANCE
It suggests that a person should
have certain experiences and
understanding in each stage of
growth that will provide appropriate
foundations for later career
planning and decision-making
PLACEMENT & FOLLOW-UP
Educational placement in courses and programs
College admissions
Job placement

Follow-up activities seeks to assess the
effectiveness of a programs placement activities
REFERRAL
Practice of helping clients
find needed expert assistance
that referring counselors
cannot provide

Directs a client to another
counselor with a higher level
of training or special
expertise related to the
clients needs
CONSULTATION
It is a process for helping a client through a third
party or helping a system to improve its services
to its clientele

TRIADIC CONSULTATION parents or teachers
with troubled pupils

Consultation is a form of outreach in which
counselors function as team members to assist
individual clients or systems that serve clients

Means of producing additional knowledge in our
field, providing factual data to reinforce or
guide the counselors professional judgment
and seeking answers to questions and issues of
professional concern
EVALUATION & ACCOUNTABILITY
Evaluation is a process for assessing the
effectiveness of the counselors activities.
Some evidence of accomplishment must be
provided in return for tax investments.
(Accountability)
PREVENTION
Seeks to prevent the occurrence
of the disorder in the first place

Devising programs in schools that
facilitate positive mental health in
tandem with mastery of cognitive
development

Wellness recognizes the mental
and physical well-being of the
individual
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR AN EFFECTIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM
School Counseling Program
are designed to serve the developmental and adjust
mental needs of ALL youth
should be concerned with the TOTAL development of
the students it serves
recognizes that individual development is a
continuous, ongoing process
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR AN EFFECTIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM
School Counseling Program
must reflect the uniqueness of the population and the
environment it serves
Must base its uniqueness on a regular, systematic
assessment
Knows that good education and good guidance are
interrelated
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR AN EFFECTIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM
School Counseling Program
is accountable
must be designed to recognize the right and capability
of the individual to make decisions and plans
must be designed with respect for the worth and
dignity of the individual
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR AN EFFECTIVE
SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM
The school counselor...
have professional competencies, leadership and
direction
is a team member
Should be a role model of positive human relations
of unbiased, equal treatment
What will become of the counseling profession in the
future?

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