What student services do school counselors provide?

• • Design and implement instruction aligned to ASCA Student Standards in large-group, classroom, small-group, and individual settings 

  • Provide short-term counseling in small-group and individual settings 

  • Make referrals to appropriate school and community resources 

  • Consult to support student achievement & success

  • Collaborate with families, teachers, administrators, other school staff 

What types of things do we talk with students about in counseling?

• • Making and keeping friends

  • Setting goals

  • Anger  management

  • Feeling good about ourselves/self confidence

  • Healthy coping skills

  • Family changes 

  • Being responsible

  • Test anxiety

  • Feelings identification

  • Positive attitude towards work and learning

What student social skills do school counselors encourage?

• • Effective oral and written communication and listening skills

  • Positive, respectful and supportive relationships with students who are similar to and different from them

  • Positive relationships with adults to support success

  • Empathy

  • Ethical decision-making 

  • Effective cooperation skills 

  • Advocacy skills for self &others and ability to assert self, when necessary 

  • Social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation and environment

  • Cultural awareness, sensitivity and responsiveness 

How can school counselors support parents? 

• • Helping to handle social or emotional concerns you have about your child

  • Improving parent communication

  • Family difficulties or concerns that affect your child at school

  • Referral for community resources

  • Understanding the developmental changes of childhood

  • Helping your child come to school everyday

What is SEL (Social Emotional Learning)?

• • The social/emotional domain of school counseling includes standards to help students manage emotions and learn and apply interpersonal skills. School counselors promote mindsets and behaviors in all grade levels that enhance the learning process and create a culture of college and career readiness for all students.

  •  Research has shown that students who participate in social/emotional learning programs demonstrate significantly improved social/emotional skills, attitudes, behavior and academic performance (11-percentile-point gain in academic achievement compared with control groups). 

Click here for more information from the American School Counseling Association:

 https://www.schoolcounselor.org/