Applying Trauma-Sensitive Practices in School Counseling: Interventions for Achieving Change

Applying Trauma-Sensitive Practices in School Counseling provides school counselors with the research, knowledge, and skills they need to implement interventions that will impact the academic, social, and emotional outcomes of traumatized students. This guidebook is for school counselors, especially those who work with students with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Readers will obtain background information about ACEs and the effects of chronic stress in childhood, trauma-informed programs for school counselors to lead school-wide, and tools and strategies for school counselors to implement in personal practice.

Stacey Rawson, MA, is a practicing school counselor in eastern Washington and an adjunct instructor at Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington University. She has nearly a decade of experience counseling students with trauma and implementing tiered-intervention counseling programs. Stacey holds an MA in counseling from the University of San Diego and is a credentialed school counselor in both California and Washington.