Classroom Counseling Lessons

PreK -  Weekly lessons

Kindergarten and 1st grade - 2 lessons each month

Grades 2-6 - 1 lesson each month

• Character Education

• Emotions/Feelings

• Diversity/Tolerance/Empathy

• Friendship/Social Skills

• Personal Safety

• Decision Making

• Career Exploration

• Bullying

• Positive School Behavior

• Tattling vs Reporting

• Test Anxiety

• Growth Mindset

Small Group Counseling - these groups are usually at parent or teacher request to address the social emotional needs of students.  Permission will be sent home for participation in a small group.  

• Divorce, Changing Families

• Anger Management

• Anxiety

• Friendship

• Self Esteem

• Grief

• Social Skills

Individual Counseling​

• Individual, short-term counseling to address concerns related to school is available to all students on an as needed basis.  

Confidentiality

While it is important that a student's conversations with a school counselor be kept confidential, confidentiality does have its limitations. According to the American School Counselor Association's Ethical Standards for School Counselors, counselors must "keep information confidential unless legal requirements demand that confidential information be revealed or a breach is required to prevent serious and foreseeable harm to the student."(American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2010).

The most frequent type of breaches include a student verbalizing the following:

1. Verbal, Physical or Sexual Abuse

2. Neglect

3. A desire to harm him/herself

4. A desire to harm someone else

5. An unreported sexual assault 

Reference:

American School Counselor Association. Ethical Standards for School Counselors. American School Counselor Association, n.d.Web. 19 March 2013 <http://www.counselors.k12.sd.us/ethics.html>