Professional School Counseling articles from December 2002

Professional School Counseling archives from December 2002

Success for all students. (From the Editor).(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... The current issue of Professional School Counseling will appeal to a wide variety of readers: school counselors from all grade levels, guidance supervisors and directors, and counselor educators. Topics include cultural diversity, training...

Using school-wide data to advocate for student success.
December 1, 2002... The past three decades have seen a growing interest in improving the quality of U.S. public education, especially related to increasing the high school graduation rate. Despite the attention, the most recent national data show limited gains...

School counselors' preparation for and participation in crisis intervention.
December 1, 2002... Due to the recent focus on incidents of school violence, there has been a heightened awareness of the need for effective crisis intervention in public schools (American Psychological Association, 1993; Canter & Carroll, 1999; Cunningham &...

Multicultural group supervision: a comparison of in-person versus Web-based formats.
December 1, 2002... Despite the need for adequate supervision for school counselor trainees, there are limited supervision opportunities for school counselor trainees (Roberts & Borders, 1994). Group supervision is an effective means of providing clinical...

Importance of the CACREP school counseling standards: school counselors' perceptions.(Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs)
December 1, 2002... Basic to the practice of any profession or professional specialty area is the delineation of specific knowledge and skill requirements for effective service delivery (Szymanski, Linkowski, Leahy, Diamond, & Thoreson, 1993). To this end, school...

School counselors' perceptions of biracial children: a pilot study.
December 1, 2002... Biracial children represent a growing segment of America's increasingly diverse population. According to Kalish (1995), data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) showed between 1978 and 1992, the number of biracial children...

Comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and the development of multicultural student-citizens.
December 1, 2002... The ultimate responsibility for education is a civic not a private one. (Selbourne, 1994, p. 216) Education not only makes democracy possible; it also makes it essential. (Galbraith, 1997, p. 71) There is a chronic failure to provide...

Promoting healthy body image in middle school.
December 1, 2002... Middle school and preadolescence is a formative period in development. Students in middle school, in the midst of puberty, begin to establish an individual identity outside the family unit (Berk, 1999). Vast arrays of personal and contextual...

Single-subject research design for school counselors: becoming an applied researcher.
December 1, 2002... During the past decade, there has been discussion over the need for outcome research documenting the work of school counselors and the lack of research delineating the work of school counselors (Baker, 2000; Fairchild, 1993; Green & Keys, 2001;...

When parents want to know: responding to parental demands for confidential information.
December 1, 2002... Research indicates that counselors struggle when faced with issues surrounding confidentiality rights of minors and rights of parents. Davis and Mickelson (1994) reported that, in responses to vignettes of legal and ethical dilemmas, school...

An intervention for helping elementary students reduce test anxiety. (Perspective From The Field).
December 1, 2002... It is an underlying assumption in schools that examinations will be given. In fact, within the broad field of education, the use of standardized testing has become ubiquitous (Council of Chief State School Officers, 2000). As salient as...