Professional School Counseling articles from October 2001

Professional School Counseling archives from October 2001

The complex, changing environment: a relative perspective. (From The Editor).
October 1, 2001... Guidance and counseling programs play a key role in preparing all students for a complex, changing environment. Professional school counselors are critical to helping students address and respond to the challenges and complexities of society....

Emerging career development theories: a test for school counselors.
October 1, 2001... School counselors are frequently called upon to help students with their career-related questions and concerns. When counselors begin to formulate plans for working with students, they most likely base their actions on their particular theory...

Helping high school students broaden their knowledge of postsecondary education options.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Most of today's school counselors are very aware of the need for almost all high school graduates to seek some kind of postsecondary education that will help them succeed in the rapidly changing, high-tech society of the Information Age...

School counselors' universal-diverse orientation and aspects of their multicultural counseling competence.
October 1, 2001... Within the next 50 years, children of color will comprise nearly 60% of all school-aged children in the United States. Currently, in large urban cities such as New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles, the percentage of White school children is less...

Empowering African-American adolescent females.
October 1, 2001... In the past two decades, there has been a small but rowing body of literature pertaining to the issues and counseling needs of African-American adolescent females (e.g., Boyd-Franklin, 1991; Harris, 1992; Muller, 2000). This increase of...

Facilitating systemic change using the MRI problem-solving approach: one school's experience.(Mental Research Institute)
October 1, 2001... More than a quarter century ago, Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch (1974), affiliated with the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California, challenged the complexity of therapeutic theories. In their book Change, they presented a...

Gifted students with learning disabilities: implications and strategies for school counselors.
October 1, 2001... In the past, many educators saw learning disabilities and giftedness as mutually exclusive, although today it is generally accepted that an individual can exhibit characteristics of both (Brody & Mills, 1997). However, students who are gifted...

Adventure-based counseling in schools.
October 1, 2001... Each year school counselors are faced with the similar situation of getting new classes of students to work together as a group. Due to class size and time constraints, school counselors often must work with groups of young people, rather than...

Use of the national standards for school counseling programs in preparing school counselors.
October 1, 2001... With the publication of the National Standards for School Counseling Programs (Campbell & Dahir, 1997) by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), professional school counselors across the country gained a significant resource to help...

Navigating the publication process II: further recommendations for prospective counselors.
October 1, 2001... Professional School Counseling (PSC) is considered to be the premier journal for publishing articles germane to professional school counselors, school counselor educators, and a variety of other professionals interested in school counseling. As...

Planning and implementing group counseling in a high school. (Perspective From The Field).
October 1, 2001... Group counseling is a direct service offered to students as part of a comprehensive school counseling program (Campbell & Dahir, 1997; Gysbers & Henderson, 2000). Although group counseling is cited as an effective intervention (Gladding, 1999),...

Biracial youth: the role of the school counselor in racial identity development.
October 1, 2001... Since the 1967 Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia, which prohibits anti-miscegenation laws, the number of biracial births has more than tripled (Sandor & Larson, 1994). Schwartz (1998a) reported that through 1996 more than 100,000...

Four-fold prevention: strategies to prevent substance abuse among elementary school-aged children.
October 1, 2001... Education to prevent child and adolescent substance abuse has been the focus of a variety of school-based programs and approaches through the last three decades (Kreft, 1998). In the early days of prevention education, young people were shown...