Counseling Referral Process
The School Counseling program is designed to help students develop skills in the areas of personal, social, academic, and career development. Individual and small group counseling opportunities are offered all year, and we respond to referrals throughout the school year as needed.
We accept referrals from teachers and parents. If you have concerns for your student or child and would like to make a referral, please click on the link below to submit a referral.
Referral criteria
Family Changes: Students experiencing challenges related to life events, which include divorce, death, loss, moving, injury, parent incarceration, and military deployment. Students will identify thoughts and feelings, develop coping strategies and identify support systems that exist in their environment.
Healthy Choices: Students experiencing challenges related to personal choices such as eating patterns, exercise, sleep patterns, stress management, preventing/managing unhealthy behaviors (e.g. self-mutilation, substance abuse). Students will identify triggers, build self-esteem and resilience, and learn to make healthy choices.
Interpersonal Issues: Students experiencing relationship challenges with friendships, bullying and harassment, conflict, respecting differences, dealing with authority, and leadership. Students will identify thoughts and feelings, internal triggers, consequences of their choices, tolerance of others, self-awareness and self-control.
Intrapersonal Issues: Students experiencing inner challenges such as anger management, stress, test anxiety, grief, depression, school phobia, esteem, self-acceptance and identity development (gender, culture, values). Students will develop resilience/coping skills, self-advocacy skills, stress- reduction techniques and skills to improve self-awareness.
Academic Success: Students experiencing challenges related to academic achievement such as study skills/habits, attendance, decision- making, problem solving, goal setting, and transitions/adjustment to new situations. Students will learn to problem solve, set goals, make decisions, improve study skills, be organized, decrease test anxiety, and adapt to change.
Other: If you observe students struggling with any situation not listed in the above referral criteria, please indicate your concerns on the counseling referral form.