School Counselor Case Study: “Tami Smith”
The client is a 14-year-old ninth-grade student who recently transferred to this counselor’s school. The client’s former school counselor reports the family is severely dysfunctional, and characterizes both Tami and her mother as being extremely manipulative. Based on the facts outlined in the case study, this paper describes how Tami’s counselor should handle this situation.
What do you see as your priorities?
There are three overarching priorities involved in Tami’s case as follows:
Compelling this student to faithfully attend class and complete her assignments… Continue Reading...
school counselor. In these situations, the counselor must take great care to avoid breaches of confidentiality while still maintaining continuity of care across the healthcare spectrum.
Conclusion
Although counseling remains one of the most rewarding professions, it is also a highly sensitive one. Clients confide in their counselors. The level to which a client trusts a counselor is parallel to the benefit received from treatment. Therefore, counselors need to ensure that clients continue to trust not just individual therapists but also the counseling profession as a whole. Continue Reading...
school counselors, while informal points of access include hearing about the programs from peers and other parents. New immigrants, ELLs, and economically disadvantaged students might not learn about Dual Credit programs from either formal or informal sources. For example, research shows that school counselors in the State of Hawaii have ““relied on students to self-identify” as interested in Running Start (Osumi, 2010, p. viii). Students who do not yet know about Running Start and other Dual Credit programs cannot self-identify. The research reveals that one of the most important methods… Continue Reading...
of it in my school.
Cultural Proficiency Receptivity Scale
After answering the questions on my preparedness as an aspiring school counselor I feel that overall, I am prepared to respond to cultural diversity concerns and issues in my school. I am convinced that if I fail to make an effort towards ensuring that my students are educated beyond the bare minimum, I would not be fully meeting their needs. In the words of Nieri (2012), schools “shape student’s cultural trajectories” and “these trajectories are tied to youth development and achievement.” With the world of today being largely a global village, where geographical boundaries no longer keep people from interacting… Continue Reading...
or interventions that can help rather than just ignoring those students.
School counselors will also be on the front lines of anti-bullying intervention strategies. Counselors need to be more active in working with teachers to develop intervention strategies and classroom management techniques. When working with students, school counselors can show how those who struggle socially can improve self-efficacy and resilience and avoid the types of logical fallacies and dysfunctional self-concepts that lead to either bullying behavior… Continue Reading...
demonstrated that culturally specific parental involvement types could also correlate with student performance outcomes. Particularly, the study showed that when school counselors invited Latino parents to involve themselves actively in their children’s education, they responded well. However, no research is yet to unearth the kind of parental involvement that is required for kids who are in their 3rd and 7th grade. The purpose of this study… Continue Reading...
state’s first fully bilingual study program, changing the type and frequency of staff meetings, and mandating more parent-teacher meetings. Moreover, the new principal hired an additional school counselor. Principal Skinner also introduced new human resources strategies for teachers, including a formal system of performance reviews written by students and coworkers. Just six months into Skinner’s leadership, five teachers filed an official complaint with the district school board and the educational commissioner. The complaint was filed prior to any formal confrontation with Principal Skinner. Continue Reading...
intelligence systems. Human resources personnel stand to derive extensive benefits from the dynamic network theory approach, too. School counselors can also learn how social networks impact student goal setting and… Continue Reading...
