Professional School Counseling articles from February 2009

Professional School Counseling archives from February 2009

Listen to the voices: school counselors and comprehensive school counseling programs.(Report)
February 1, 2009... Presently, many state departments of education and school counselor associations have published second-generation documents aligned with the ASCA National Model[R] (American School Counselor Association, 2005). This research study analyzed some...

Reported levels of satisfaction and frustration by Arizona school counselors: a desire for greater connections with students in a data-driven era.(Report)
February 1, 2009... A survey was designed to comprehensively assess multiple aspects of school counselor job satisfaction and job-related frustration, as well as orientation with the comprehensive curriculum-based guidance program used in Arizona. The five-page...

School counselor consultation: a pathway to advocacy, collaboration, and leadership.(Report)
February 1, 2009... In this article, four vignettes are presented and deconstructed in order to demonstrate that school counselors are advocates, collaborators, and leaders when engaged as consultants. School counselor consultation appears to he a complex process...

Children's self-concept: a multicultural comparison.(Report)
February 1, 2009... Self-concept is critical in the social and emotional development of children, although little research has examined its relationship to ethnicity. The self-concept of 214 fourth- and fifth-grade students (White, Black/Haitian American, and...

Addressing the sexualization of girls through comprehensive programs, advocacy, and systemic change: implications for professional school counselors.(Report)
February 1, 2009... While today's girls are learning that they can achieve at the highest educational and professional levels, they also receive strong cultural messages that portray girls and women according to limiting sexual stereotypes. The trend toward the...

Narrative theory: a career counseling approach for adolescents of divorce.(Report)
February 1, 2009... Adolescents whose parents divorce face academic and vocational impediments that challenge their career options. Although divorce does not affect all children uniformly, research confirms that, overall, divorce negatively influences academic...

Ending the silence of the Mexican immigrant voice in public education: creating culturally inclusive family-school-community partnerships.(Report)
February 1, 2009... Race and culture continue to be conceptualized within a polarized, Black-White dichotomy in U.S. education, rendering the Latino population a silenced minority. Partnerships, when developed with intentionality and critical consciousness,...

Low-income African-American caregivers' experiences of being referred to mental health services by the school counselor: implications for best practices.(Report)
February 1, 2009... Referring students for mental health care is a core job function for school counselors, and one that is often stressful for all parties involved. In this phenomenological study, six low-income African-American caregivers were interviewed about...

The effects of cuento therapy on reading achievement and psychological outcomes of Mexican-American students.(intervention using Spanish-language tales)(Report)
February 1, 2009... This investigation evaluated the effects of cuento therapy (an intervention using Spanish-language tales) on children's self-esteem, affect, and reading test performance. The sample was composed of 58 third-grade Mexican-American students who...