William L. Fibkins

Wake Up Counselors! (eBook, PDF)

Restoring Counseling Services for Troubled Teens

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing individual and group counseling for secondary school students was once a major priority for secondary school counselors. However, many guidance programs have abandoned this role, and counselors have become quasi-administrators who spend most of their time scheduling students for classes, managing mandated testing programs, resolving discipline issues, and advising students on college admissions. Counseling students on personal and well-being issues takes up a very small part of the time. In many school districts, social workers, student assistance counselors, and school psychologists have taken over the counseling duties. Critical issues are now causing school leaders to consider reorganizing school guidance staff so there is a cadre of counselors trained and charged with the mission of providing individual and group counseling for troubled teens. First, the number of troubled teens arriving at the schoolhouse door looking for help has exploded. Second, budget cuts have eliminated or drastically curtailed many of the services of social workers, student assistance counselors, and psychologists. The result? Many once open doors for help are now closed, and schools' counseling services are failing many students, parents, and educators in need of intervention. This book provides a new model in which well-trained counselors can once again regain their historic role in counseling troubled teens, parents, and training staff and students on the front lines to act -- not look the other way -- when they observe a student heading towards the margins of school life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216349020
• Artikelnr.: 74846303

Autorenporträt

William L. Fibkins is an author, consultant, trainer, conference presenter, and he has led a number of successful secondary school reforms projects at the middle, junior high, and high school levels. He holds degrees in counselor education and school administration from Syracuse University. His experience includes director guidance; school psychologist; student assistance counselor; and teaching school leadership, administration, and counselor education courses at the graduate level. To find out more about him and his work, visit williamfibkins.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Impact of the Demise of Personal Counseling Services in Our
Schools
Chapter 2: The Role of Personal Counseling of Troubled Students: Never
Gained a Foothold in
School Guidance Program
Chapter 3: A Profession in Search of a Model for Change: Offering Solutions
that are not Really
Solutions
Chapter 4: The Profession is Not Dead, Yet: Getting Some Help from the
American School
Counselor Association National Model
Chapter 5: The Personal Counselor as an Observer, and Reporter of Student
Behavior
Chapter 6: The Role of the Personal Counselor as Advisor to the Principal
Chapter 7: Selling the Personal Counseling Role with a Successful
Intervention Program
Chapter 8: Personal Counselors cannot solve all the Problems of Troubled
Students: Skilled allies are
Needed to join the Effort
References