School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century (3rd Edition) - Hardcover

Stanley B. Baker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136450946 ISBN 13: 9780136450948

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 1999

Synopsis

This comprehensive text reviews the role of today's school counselor in preparing readers to function in a high-tech global society and to be well-adjusted to cope with its changes and challenges. School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century offers guidance in defining and in enunciating the school counselor's roles and functions more clearly as social changes and socio-economic pressures influence the directions of school programs. Addresses counseling for social change, racism through local action and multicultural counseling, diversity-sensitive counseling for sexual minority youth, and school counselors and their professional identities. Includes sections on avoiding ethical violations, ethical multicultural counseling, making ethical decisions, and sources of ethical consultation, as well as the accountability portfolio idea, the potential for external reviews, and suggestions for enhancing public relations through accountability. Appropriate for those interested in school counseling.

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From the Publisher:

Using a developmental framework and a balanced-approach concept as an organizing theme, this comprehensive exploration of the counseling process covers school counseling for all age ranges -- elementary, middle, and secondary. It focuses on basic counseling functions and competencies, outlines a logical, generic, stepped-helping model, and provides many real-world applications throughout.

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The foundation for the fourth edition of School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century was built for us in the late 1960s and early 1970s when—as a high school counselor (Stan Baker) in Janesville, Wisconsin, and as an elementary school counselor (Ed Gerler) in Millville, Pennsylvania—we experienced the daily challenges of working with students, teachers, and parents. Racial upheaval and the Vietnam War created the headlines of that era and changed the lives of us all. Affective Education and Career Education were among the tasks mandated for school counselors of that time. Memories linger of carrying a large video camera, with cords dragging along the floor of a barn, to record a career education lesson on the work of a dairy farmer. Technology has evolved, but cultural, racial, and international tensions continue in our twenty-first century world. School counselors have new mandates and new technologies to apply, but face many of the same challenges that existed when we began our work in Janesville and Millville.

Educators across the world need to prepare a diverse citizenry to function cooperatively in a high-tech, competitive, global economy and to be well-adjusted enough to cope with its changes and challenges. The fourth edition of School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century takes advantage of ever-changing computer and Internet technology to prepare school counselors for helping students meet the (new and old) academic, social, psychological, and economic challenges of a complex, diverse world.

This new edition of our book features online lessons that help professors and graduate students to reflect on the content of each chapter. The online lessons also encourage professors, graduate students, and practitioners to generate ideas for an emerging School Counseling Activities Network (SCAN)—www.scan2lst.com—an Internet site devoted to the invention of online materials and strategies for helping young people meet some of the challenges they face. In association with the book and online lessons, SCAN is designed to bring the graduate school classroom and the practice of school counseling into closer harmony.

The content of School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century has evolved in the following ways. A new opening chapter introduces readers to the school counseling profession. The introduction in chapter 1 highlights three current initiatives that may influence the school counseling profession: the American School Counselor Association's National Model for School Counseling Programs, the Education Trust's National School Counselor Training Initiative, and the School-Community Collaboration Model. The remainder of the book presents competencies for school counselors within the context of these initiatives, with a new emphasis on competencies in advocacy, leadership, and collaboration. Chapter 2 explores a balanced approach to school counseling, whic4s the book's theme. Chapter 3 examines the legal and ethical responsibilities of school counselors. Chapters 4 through 13 focus on important competencies for school counselors in the following areas: prevention, individual and group counseling, consulting, referral and coordination, disseminating information, helping students make transitions, assessment, advocacy, leadership, and accountability. The final chapter helps counselors reflect on their futures as professional counselors in schools.

Each chapter begins with a vignette—bringing the work of school counselors to life—to motivate serious study of subject matter important to counseling in schools. Equally compelling are the many counseling examples and activities, presented in the text and in the online assignments, that make conceptual material understandable and relevant to school counseling practice.

Our schools need excellent counseling programs. The school counseling profession is challenged to define and enunciate its priorities clearly as social changes and socioeconomic pressures influence the changing directions of both public and private schools. The next generation of counselors has an opportunity to make significant contributions to the responses the schools make to these demands. The fourth edition of School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century was developed with these demands and challenges in mind. The book and its online affiliates are designed primarily for courses in which graduate students are introduced to, and socialized for, the school counseling profession. The material presented is also a useful source of information for students in school administration and introductory counseling courses, as well as a resource for professional school counselors in the process of self-renewal.

The final chapter of School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century begins with a testimonial we heard from a school counselor (now retired) who reflected on his career with these words:

I have been a school counselor for 35 years. As I reflect on my years in counseling, I realize that I could not have chosen a better, more rewarding career for myself.

Our goal in writing this book and in developing its online materials was to help prepare a new generation of school counselors for rewarding careers.

To professors who adopt this textbook: Please contact Kevin Davis at Prentice Hall for a copy of the Instructor's Manual—Kevin_Davis@Prenhall.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0136450946
• ISBN 13: 9780136450948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 418