Professional School Counseling articles from December 2003

Professional School Counseling archives from December 2003

Children's perceptions of vocational preparation requirements.
December 1, 2003... Editor's Note: Several authors cited as references have double last names which are not hyphenated. Through focused interviews with 119 elementary students, researchers examined children's understanding of vocational preparation...

Effects of a values clarification curriculum on high school students' definitions of success.
December 1, 2003... Fifty-four students in a suburban, Midwest high school participated in a four-part values clarification curriculum. The majority of the students in the experimental group expanded their definitions of success. Student evaluations, focus group...

Trends in school counseling journals: the first fifty years.
December 1, 2003... The school counseling profession has published three journals in the course of its history. All articles in these journals were coded as to authorship, article type, content, and the core areas of the 2001 Council for Accreditation of...

Helping students improve academic achievement and school success behavior.
December 1, 2003... This article describes a study evaluating the impact of school-counselor-led interventions on student academic achievement and school success behavior. A group counseling and classroom guidance model called student success skills (SSS) was the...

High-school math courses and completion of the bachelor's degree.
December 1, 2003... Using a national longitudinal sample of 5,257 young people who were pursuing the bachelor's degree, we studied how credits in intensive high school mathematics courses affected their completion versus noncompletion of the degree. Finishing one...

A group counseling intervention for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
December 1, 2003... A theoretical framework is presented to increase school counselor understanding of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and support a counselor intervention. This article outlines a six-session group counseling...

Solution Shop: a solution-focused counseling and study skills program for middle school.
December 1, 2003... Solution Shop is a data-driven counseling and study skills program that specifically addresses the underachievement of students of color and economically disadvantaged students. Solution Shop provides an example of the key role professional...