Professional School Counseling articles from February 2006

Professional School Counseling archives from February 2006

From family deficit to family strength: viewing families' contributions to children's learning from a family resilience perspective.
February 1, 2006... This article presents an overview of a research-informed family resilience framework, developed as a conceptual map to guide school counselors' preventive and interventive efforts with students and their families. Key processes that...

Evaluation of an innovative approach to improving middle school students' academic achievement.
February 1, 2006... This article presents the results of an evaluation conducted by two middle school counselors, in collaboration with university researchers, to assess the effectiveness of a classroom intervention designed to impact academic achievement. The...

School counselors' career satisfaction and commitment: correlates and predictors.
February 1, 2006... The purpose of this article is to investigate correlates and predictors of school counselors' career satisfaction and commitment. Regression analyses of 1,280 Florida counselors' survey responses indicated that positive predictors of career...

Do school counselors matter? Mattering as a moderator between job stress and job satisfaction.
February 1, 2006... The relationships of perceived mattering to others, job-related stress, and job satisfaction were examined for 388 elementary, middle, and high school counselors from across the United States. Participants completed the School Counselor...

School counselors as resource brokers: the case for including teacher efficacy in data-driven programs.
February 1, 2006... The term resource broker is offered to assist counselors with data-driven programs. A resource broker is a school professional who functions as an active force to identify, provide access to, and ensure the utilization of resources that enhance...

School reentry for students with a chronic illness: a role for professional school counselors.
February 1, 2006... Approximately 20% of all children have a chronic illness, and about one-third of that number experience consequences severe enough to interfere with school functioning and performance. This article describes challenges that schools face in...

Using problem-based learning with victims of bullying behavior.
February 1, 2006... Victims of bullying need assistance in developing better strategies for effectively responding to bullies. Utilizing a new intervention strategy, problem-based learning (PBL), school counselors can incorporate problem-solving and...

How collaboration and research can affect school counseling practices: the Minnesota story.
February 1, 2006... Collaboration among various professional groups to enhance student learning is a very useful strategy. This article describes how one state, Minnesota, over time (1960-1990), employed collaboration among schools, universities, professional...

Improving school guidance and counseling practices through effective and sustained state leadership: a response to Miller.(Dean Miller)
February 1, 2006... The article by Dean Miller tells a story, a very important story about how guidance supervisors at the state level served as catalysts and leaders in a sustained effort to improve school guidance and counseling practices. The article, "How...

The role of the rural school counselor: counselor, counselor-in-training, and principal perceptions.
February 1, 2006... The American School Counselor Association developed a comprehensive set of school counseling guidelines to enhance the school counselor's role within schools in the United States. This study looks at counselors" and principals" perceptions of...

Professional school counselors' approaches to technology.(PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD)
February 1, 2006... Existing literature in the field of school counseling discusses how technology may be used for service delivery" however, the translation of this knowledge to practice among school counselors has been minimally examined. Three hundred...

Practitioner inquiry: a method to advocate for systemic change.(academic achievement)
February 1, 2006... Practitioner inquiry offers a strategy for creating systemic change thus increasing opportunities for all students' academic achievement. Too often, school counselors are considered ancillary in schools rather than an integral member of the...

Effective counseling strategies for supporting long-term suspended students.(PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FIELD)
February 1, 2006... Long-term suspended (LTS) students are barred from the school system for lengthy periods, leaving them at risk of academic failure and vulnerable from lack of services. A program in a North Carolina public school system provided counselors to...