Professional School Counseling articles from June 2004

Professional School Counseling archives from June 2004

Introducing spirituality to Professional School Counseling.
June 1, 2004... We need a new world view again. We need to put old ideas "in new light." But how? What is left out of which to build a new world vision? I suggest that we begin to look again at the bases of social brokenness. And that we begin to see the...

Collaborating with students' spirituality.
June 1, 2004... Spirituality provides an opportunity for collaboration between school counselors and students around student diversity and development. North America in general and counseling in particular are now emerging from the limitations of worldviews...

An integral approach to spiritual wellness in school counseling settings.
June 1, 2004... Spirituality is a dimension of humanness and spiritual wellness is a construct that reflects spiritual health. This article describes how Wilber's (1995) Integral Model can be used to integrate spiritual wellness into school counseling...

Spirituality and comprehensive school counseling programs.
June 1, 2004... Since spirituality is fundamental to human functioning, in this article, the author makes the case for including students' spirituality within the context of comprehensive school counseling programs. To do so, the article (a) defines...

Counselors, communities, and spirituality: ethical and multicultural considerations.
June 1, 2004... The ethical implications of spiritual diversity for school counseling in rural and small world communities are explored in this article. Multicultural competencies are proposed as a framework for conceptualizing and responding to these...

Asian shades of spirituality: implications for multicultural school counseling.
June 1, 2004... In many cases, Asian students can be better served by understanding the spiritual aspects of Asian spiritual and religious traditions. Three specific traditions are outlined in this article: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Each tradition is...

Enhancing the spiritual development of adolescent girls.
June 1, 2004... Spirituality is an important force during a period when institutional religion seems to be losing its hold on adolescents. To enhance the spiritual development of adolescent girls in the school setting, the group experience described addresses...

Spirituality, complexity, and career counseling.
June 1, 2004... The issues of change and connection are explored through concepts of complexity theory and spirituality. Complexity concepts of open exchange, networks, phase transitions, fitness peaks, and attractors are interwoven with spiritual concepts of...

Linking spirituality and violence prevention in school counseling.
June 1, 2004... The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of spirituality in school counseling and to link spirituality in counseling practice and programs with violence prevention. ACA/ASERVIC Spirituality Competencies are translated into...

Assessing students for morality education: a new role for school counselors.
June 1, 2004... Violence in schools needs to be ameliorated by corrective measures that include morality education. School counselors, by their training in dealing with problems of students and their families, are the best qualified to teach the importance of...

Teach, but don't preach: practical guidelines for addressing spiritual concerns of students.
June 1, 2004... Guidelines based on the American School Counselor Association's ethical codes and various social studies teaching techniques are presented for school counselors to use as they address the spiritual concerns of students. The role of the First...

When spirituality goes awry: students in cults.
June 1, 2004... Adolescents are objects of recruitment for religious cults. Identifying new religious movements, cults, and dissenting religious groups, understanding their practices, and discovering reasons for their attractiveness to some students are...

Unmasking eating disorders in the schools.(Body Wise Handbook: Eating Disorders Information for Middle School Personnel)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Body Wise Handbook: Eating Disorders Information for Middle School Personnel (2nd ed.) by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000, July. Due to the fact that school counselors often...

Advocacy for above average students.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The Academic Adventures of Laura Bridges." An Introduction to Educational Architecture Therapy by James P. Bridges; New Philosopher Press; 1999; $34.95 for hard spiral laminate, $29.95 for soft spiral laminate; available from...