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What is elementary school Counselling?
By providing education, prevention, early identification and intervention, elementary school counselors help their students achieve academic success, develop an understanding of career opportunities and develop social/ emotional skills in response to issues they face. On the job, school counselors: Listen to students’ concerns about academic, emotional or social problems. Help students process their problems and plan goals and action. Mediate conflict between students and teachers. School Counseling Curriculum Through the curriculum, school counselors teach classroom lessons organized into three domains—academic, career and social-emotional—to all students. Academic Development Academic counseling and guidance is a primary responsibility of school counselors and comprehensive school counseling programs. Student success is the goal for all school counseling programs and academic success is a major part of that. They must use listening skills and offer empathy in order to build relationships. A counselor must also perform assessments and coordinate activities and educational efforts. These duties mean they must remain flexible and exercise authority when appropriate.
What is the goal of an elementary school counselor?
Counselling aims to aid people to overcome their direct problems and also to prepare them to face upcoming problems. Academic development, career growth and personal or social development are the key goals of the school guidance and counselling programs mainly. Counseling is a collaborative effort between the counselor and client. Professional counselors help clients identify goals and potential solutions to problems which cause emotional turmoil; seek to improve communication and coping skills; strengthen self-esteem; and promote behavior change and optimal mental health. The three major techniques used in counselling process in schools. The techniques are: (1) Directive Counselling, (2) Non-Directive Counselling, and (3) Eclectic Counselling. Psychodynamic Counseling is probably the most well-known counseling approach. Rooted in Freudian theory, this type of counseling involves building strong therapist–client alliances. The goal is to aid clients in developing the psychological tools needed to deal with complicated feelings and situations. Fortunately, almost all of the many individual theoretical models of counseling fall into one or more of six major theoretical categories: humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, psychoanalytic, constructionist and systemic.
Why do we need counselling in schools?
The primary motive behind counseling at school level is to address the emotional, social and behavioral needs of the students. And to create a seamless and friendly environment to help each one of them with different approaches. Always remember that school-based professionals provide counseling and not psychotherapy. Counseling is a collaborative effort between the counselor and client. Professional counselors help clients identify goals and potential solutions to problems which cause emotional turmoil; seek to improve communication and coping skills; strengthen self-esteem; and promote behavior change and optimal mental health. Educational Counselling mainly refers to providing assistance and guidance to students in making the right choices in their studies, be it their educational plans, career aspirations, choice of stream and specialisation as well as the selection of college or university as per their interests and preferences. They must use listening skills and offer empathy in order to build relationships. A counselor must also perform assessments and coordinate activities and educational efforts. These duties mean they must remain flexible and exercise authority when appropriate. The basic stages of counseling are: 1) Developing the client/clinician relationship; 2) Clarifying and assessing the presenting problem or situation; 3) Identifying and setting counseling or treatment goals; 4) Designing and implementing interventions; and 5) Planning, termination, and follow-up. The research says that the most effective elements of the counseling relationship are 1) the alliance; 2) empathy; 3) goal consensus and collaboration; and 4) cohesion (in group counseling).
What is counselling process?
While counseling varies in both form and purpose, most counseling theories embody some form of the following three stages (Krishnan, n.d.): relationship building, problem assessment, and goal setting. Counselors and clients must both be aware that the counseling process requires patience. Guidance and counseling have three fold functions namely adjustmental, orientational and development. The five bedrock principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and fidelity are each vital in and of themselves to a healthy counseling relationship. Arguably, the most important step of a comprehensive school counseling program is a sound SMART goal. The acronym SMART stands for specific, measurable, achievable, results-focused and time-bound. In school counseling, SMART goals are derived from student behavior, attendance and academic outcome data. Currently preferred cognitive-theory-based therapies include cognitive behavior therapy, reality therapy, motivational interviewing, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Behavioral: Behavioral counseling theories hold that people engage in problematic thinking and behavior when their environment supports it.
What are the main roles of school counselor?
Guidance counselors are certified professionals employed by schools or academic institutions to assist and advise students about academic and personal decisions. They provide private counseling to students, assess the ability and potential of students, and coordinate with fellow professionals on student matters. Guidance counselors are certified professionals employed by schools or academic institutions to assist and advise students about academic and personal decisions. They provide private counseling to students, assess the ability and potential of students, and coordinate with fellow professionals on student matters. They must use listening skills and offer empathy in order to build relationships. A counselor must also perform assessments and coordinate activities and educational efforts. These duties mean they must remain flexible and exercise authority when appropriate. School counselors deliver programs that have an impact on student growth in three domain areas: academic development, career development and social/emotional development (ASCA, 2019). The Code of Conduct applies to counsellors work related activities. It includes the clinical or counselling practice as well as research, teaching, supervision of trainees and other activities that relate to the overall general training and employment of the counselling profession. Phases of counselling: 1)Establishing relationship. 2)Assessment. 3)Setting goals. 4)Intervention.