This component includes teaching a counseling curriculum based on the mindsets and behaviors of ASCA. In order for all students to reach their top potential, they need a more enhanced counseling curriculum in the areas of academic, career, and social/emotional development. This curriculum can be completed individually, in a classroom setting, or in a small group setting.
This is the process where school counselors work with students to help them identify and assess their abilities, skills, values, and achievement. The school counselor uses the ASCA mindsets and behaviors for student success to help students set short-term and long-range goals. These goals are based on data, test information, and inventories. This occurs in small groups, classroom settings, and with individual students.
This is where the school counselor uses data, appraisals, and inventories to assist students to make decisions for their future. This step is an effort to help students reach their highest potential. This occurs in small groups, classroom settings, and with individual students.
This is professional assistance provided to students during any situation that impedes student success. Counseling can be proactive, responsive, short-term, and based on theory. Counseling should also be provided during and after a crisis. Should a student require long-term counseling the school counselor will work in collaboration with families and other professionals on providing the appropriate referrals and community support systems.
School counselors use indirect services such as working with parents, teachers, administrators, staff, and community members to promote equality and access for all students. This type of service can promote systematic change for a specific student or a group of students in areas of achievement. Indirect student services are offered through consultation, collaboration, and referrals.
School counselors both provide and seek consultation. This is the process of gaining and sharing information with collaborators who can support a student's needs or provide information about a student's needs. The counselor is the student's advocate in promoting academic, career, and social/emotional development.
This is the process where multiple people work towards a common goal and share responsibility for the task associated with their goal. Examples of collaboration for school counselors include parent workshops, volunteering to be on the crisis response team, community partnerships, serving on school and/or district committees, working with stakeholders towards a specific goal within the school or community.
A school counselor provides instructional, advisement, and counseling services through brief, targeted approaches. If the student has needs beyond short-term services or counseling the school counselor has an ethical responsibility to refer students and families to other professionals, outside of the school., The referral sources can include but are not limited to tutoring, career and college planning, social-emotional, or mental health issues.
​*If you or someone you know may be interested in participating in any of the services provided by the Denison Elementary School Counseling Department you may email, call, fill out a form under the resources tab, or stop by the counseling office to fill out a referral form located on the outside of the blue box and return the form to the locked blue mailbox.
American School Counselor Association. (2019). ASCA national model: A framework for school counseling programs. Fourth edition, Alexandria, VA: Author