Product Description: Kate Phillippo evaluates the practice of having teachers also serve as advisors, tasked with providing social-emotional support to students. Through an in-depth survey of teacher-advisors at three different urban high schools, she examines the different ways in which advisors interpret and carry out the role and the outcomes for students...read more

Providing individual and group counseling for secondary school students was once a major priority for secondary school counselors. However, many guidance programs have abandoned this role, and counselors have become quasi-administrators who spend most of their time scheduling students for classes, managing mandated testing programs, resolving discipline issues, and advising students on college admissions. Counseling students on personal and well-being issues takes up a very small part of the time.In many school districts, social workers, student assistance counselors, and school psychologists have taken over the counseling duties. Critical issues are now causing school leaders to consider reorganizing school guidance staff so there is a cadre of counselors trained and charged with the mission of providing individual and group counseling for troubled teens. First, the number of troubled teens arriving at the schoolhouse door looking for help has exploded. Second, budget cuts have eliminated or drastically curtailed many of the services of social workers, student assistance counselors, and psychologists. The result? Many once open doors for help are now closed, and schools' counseling services are failing many students, parents, and educators in need of intervention. This book provides a new model in which well-trained counselors can once again regain their historic role in counseling troubled teens, parents, and training staff and students on the front lines to act -- not look the other way -- when they observe a student heading towards the margins of school life.

Product Description: The guided discussions in this book are proven ways to reach out to young people and address their social and emotional needs. Teens gain self-awareness and self-esteem, practice problem solving and goal setting, feel more in control of their lives, and learn that they have much in common with one another—they are not alone...read more

Tested on thousands of teenagers in many different kinds of schools, this powerful resource provides guided discussions that are designed to effectively reach out to young people and address their social and emotional needs, making them realize that they are not alone. Original.

Product Description: The authors offer a practical approach to creating a reorganized, fully-integrated student support community that contributes to increasing academic success.

Product Description: Written from the perspective of a practicing, certified counselor, this guide contains essential information needed to smoothly transition from service-based to program-based counseling.

Product Description: School leaders agree that advisory is a core structure for personalizing schooling for adolescents. The challenge is crafting the best program for your students and faculty. The Advisory Guide helps secondary educators design and implement an advisory program tailored to their school s needs and goals...read more

New edition of a textbook that traces the development of school counseling, presents contemporary roles and functions in today's schools, and explores future possibilities for the profession. Topics include comprehensive school counseling programs, individual and group counseling, educational planni (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book provides practical implementation strategies for principals, other administrators, counselors, teachers, and parents who strive to make their school a place where students feel they belong.

Outlines how to investigate and establish an advisory system that is tailored to the needs of a particular school, covering such topics as training staff, keeping records, and communicating with parents.

Shows how to analyze the decision to drop out of school, offers advice on setting goals, and discusses educational alternatives

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Product Description: Guided discussions to help teens about self and stress.