Professional School Counseling articles from April 2007

Professional School Counseling archives from April 2007

Empowerment theory for the professional school counselor: a manifesto for what really matters.(EXTENDED DISCUSSION)
April 1, 2007... Borrowing from the legacy of feminist and multicultural theories, various counseling fields have applied portions of empowerment theory to their work with oppressed clients. This article examines the main concepts associated with empowerment...

Expanding Hipolito-Delgado and Lee's Empowerment Theory: a response.(EXTENDED DISCUSSION)
April 1, 2007... Hipolito-Delgado and Lee's article entitled "Empowerment Theory for the Professional School Counselor: A Manifesto for What Really Matters" represents an important contribution to the school counseling literature for two reasons. First, it...

A reaction to Hipolito-Delgado and Lee.(EXTENDED DISCUSSION)
April 1, 2007... In their article in this issue, Hipolito-Delgado and Lee contend that empowering students from marginalized communities is a fundamental role of school counselors and consistent with both the Education Trust's (2003) and the American School...

What really matters is school counselor empowerment: a response to Hipolito-Delgado and Lee.(EXTENDED DISCUSSION)
April 1, 2007... It is challenging to respond to, and in particular critique, a stance that proclaims school counselors should become more proactive as advocates for students who have experienced oppression and are members of marginalized communities. This is...

Advocacy--professional school counselors closing the achievement gap through empowerment: a response to Hipolito-Delgado and Lee.(EXTENDED DISCUSSION)
April 1, 2007... The article by Hipolito-Delgado and Lee, "Empowerment Theory for the Professional School Counselor: A Manifesto for What Really Matters," addresses a timely topic and highlights the critical need for a comprehensive, multicultural school...

Staying focused on what really matters: further thoughts on empowerment theory for professional school counselors.(EXTENDED DISCUSSION)
April 1, 2007... We would like to begin by thanking authors Zalaquett and D'Andrea, Sciarra and Whitson, Schmidt, and Mitcham-Smith for their insightful critiques of our article. We also would like to thank editors Rich Lapan and Rick Auger for the opportunity...

National certification: evidence of a professional school counselor?
April 1, 2007... National certification and the professionalism of school counselors are becoming more salient, particularly as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act. Archival data were used to examine the relationship between preparation at programs...

Developmental counseling and therapy as a model for school counselor consultation with teachers.
April 1, 2007... Referral requests for individual counseling pose a threat to the implementation of comprehensive school counseling programs (Jackson & White, 2000). Consulting with teachers is one way that school counselors can efficiently respond to some...

Critical incidents in the development of supportive principals: facilitating school counselor--principal relationships.
April 1, 2007... The qualitative study in this article explores critical incidents that may facilitate the support a principal provides for a school counseling program. Through structured interviews, supportive principals are asked to reflect on their prior...

Day-to-day activities of school counselors: alignment with new directions in the field and the ASCA National Model[R].(American School Counselor Association)
April 1, 2007... Role changes in the profession of school counseling take considerable time to be enacted in practice. The purpose of the study in this article is to examine whether newly hired elementary school counselors working in urban settings can...

The relationships of peer norms, ethnic identity, and peer support to school engagement in urban youth.
April 1, 2007... Investigating variables associated with the school success and educational resilience of urban youth of color should be a high priority because of the persistent achievement gap in the United States. The current study examined individual and...

An examination of referrals to the school counselor by race, gender, and family structure.
April 1, 2007... This article reports on a study addressing student referral differences based on family structure, gender, and race in teacher-initiated contact to school counselors. Researchers used secondary data from the National Education Longitudinal...

School-family-community partnerships: strategies for school counselors working with Caribbean immigrant families.
April 1, 2007... Caribbean immigrant students, who represent one of the largest subgroups in the Black population in the United States, are experiencing negative educational outcomes that are related to poor academic achievement and high dropout rates. These...

Middle school students' expectations about counseling.
April 1, 2007... Although counseling expectations have been studied in late adolescent and adult samples, little is known about younger adolescents' openness to counseling and perceptions of the counseling process. In this study, 329 middle school students...

Conducting adolescent violence risk assessments: a framework for school counselors.
April 1, 2007... There have been numerous publications devoted to preventing violence and bullying in schools, resulting in school counselors being well equipped with school-wide violence prevention ideas and programs. Despite these violence prevention efforts,...

Two counseling interventions to reduce teacher-child relationship stress.
April 1, 2007... This article discusses a study investigating the impact of two school counseling interventions, child-centered play therapy (CCPT) and teacher consultation, on teacher-child relationship stress. CCPT and teacher consultation were conducted with...