School Counseling: School Counseling General

Examines how all educators, including school counselors, psychologists, and social workers, can work together for maximum positive impact. Providing practical advice for strategic planning and a professional development activity for every chapter, this book informs readers how to navigate team tensions and achieve a school culture that fosters respect, involvement, and growth for everyone. Readers will: Incorporate social-emotional learning into everyday classroom practice, Learn how to build resilience and a growth mindset in students, Acquire strategies for helping dysregulated students and implementing interventions, Discover ways to include trauma-informed and restorative practices in classrooms, in offices, and schoolwide, Recognize compassion fatigue in themselves and others, and implement prevention strategies,

By working together, school administrators and guidance counselors can greatly accelerate their impact on school improvement, student behavior, and mental health. With this practical guide, readers will discover a systematic approach for establishing an effective school counselor-administrator team.

The fifth edition of this bestseller expands and extends Gysbers and Henderson's acclaimed five-phase model of planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and enhancing Pre-K-12 guidance and counseling programs. This enduring, influential textbook has been fully updated to reflect current theory and practice, including knowledge gained through various state and local adaptations of the model since publication of the last edition.

With the emphasis on evidence-based practice in the schools growing exponentially, school practitioners must learn how to understand, judge, and make use of the research being produced to full effect. Conversely, researchers must understand what is being used in "real-world" settings, and what is still needed.The editors of this book have outlined this process as a series of steps, beginning with bein a critical consumer of current research literature, followed by concepts to consider in translating research into practice: systems issues at local, district, and state levels; the role of teachers inprogram implementation; evaluation of implementation effectiveness, and preservice and inservice professional development of teachers and psychologists.

Provides an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing, and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism at multiple levels of severity and complexity using a multi-tiered framework based on prevention (Tier 1), early intervention for emerging cases (Tier 2), and more extensive intervention and systemic strategies for severe cases (Tier 3).

Grounded in cutting-edge research, this book shows how interventions targeting gratitude, kindness, character strengths, optimistic thinking, hope, and healthy relationships can contribute to improved academic and social outcomes in grades 3-12. It provides a 10-session manual for promoting subjective well-being--complete with vivid case examples--that can be implemented with individuals, small groups, or whole classes.

Treatment plan components for 33 behaviorally based presenting problems Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions.

This easy-to-use sourcebook features: 75 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered in school settings, such as study and organizational skill deficits and academic motivation/underachievement, as well as "outside" issues such as blended families, divorce, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and parenting skill deficits A quick-reference format--the interactive assignments are grouped by presenting problems including learning difficulties, disruptive classroom behavior, self-esteem building, bullying, and school violence Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises.

The pedagogical basis for these lessons are shaped around the research findings of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Each lesson (36 total) will offer step-by-step instructions along with a materials list.

Focus on doing what works as simply and efficiently as possible by using their strengths, resources, wisdom, and feedback. This edition includes new chapters and information on the restrictive influence of problems, strategies for building positive relationship, collecting client feedback to monitor and improve services, and co-constructing solvable problems and reachable goals. Real-life case examples, sample dialog from counseling sessions, discussion and practice exercises, troubleshooting tips

Use the book's actionable steps to amplify student voice, establish community partnerships, and design programming that fully supports the whole child. Use this resource to establish processes that address the what, how, where, and who of the wraparound center. Recognize the impact of outside influences on students and how they affect their classroom learning. Design processes to hear student voices and identify their needs. Forge relationships with students and establish community partnerships. Design and fund services and programs that meet student needs.

This text applies Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to use in school settings, presenting the first comprehensive integration of theory with specific intervention strategies and techniques designed for work in school.

This authoritative guidebook gives school counselors the tools to identify evidence-based practices and to use data in designing, implementing, and evaluating programs and interventions.