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...
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...
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...
