Counseling in Schools by John J. Schmidt provides critical information about the school counseling profession and the leadership role professional counselors have in today’s schools. Widely popular in its previous edition, the book traces the development of school counseling, presents contemporary roles and functions for school counselors, and explores future possibilities for the profession. Included are a variety of resources to help counseling students and professionals seeking information about the nature of school counseling services deal effectively with the roles and functions the job today, and explore possibilities for the profession tomorrow, among them: case studies; exercises; samples of program designs for elementary, middle, and high school counseling centers; a look at the ASCA National Model® and other approaches; and much more.
Students preparing for a career in school counseling and professional seeking information about the nature of school counseling services find this comprehensive book an invaluable resource. In it the author traces the development of school counseling, presents contemporary roles and functions for school counselors, and explores future possibilities for the profession.
The book is based on the philosophy that the most efficient and effective way to provide counseling in schools is through comprehensive programs of services designed to meet the needs of students, parents, and teachers during the elementary, middle, and high school years. It illustrates the common goals and various functions found in the practice of school counseling at the three levels of education, as well as aspects that influence the role of counselors in schools.
The new edition includes:
- Additional means for readers to follow content and connect it to important issues of the profession through new tables, diagrams, figures, and forms.
- Encouragement for exploring personal insights and relating them to specific content through the perspectives in each chapter.
- Ideas for continuing to explore topics through contemporary resources suggested on the updated websites and suggested readings at the end of each chapter.
- Opportunities for applying the material through the exercises at the end of each chapter.
- A look at the ASCA National Model® (2005) and comparisons with other comprehensive school counseling approaches through revised content examining the similarities and differences among the popular models.
- Information for keeping up to date with current preparation standards from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP, 2009).
- Practical help for learning what the school counseling profession believes are important knowledge bases, competencies, and standards of practice in the 21st century in the discussion of new competencies of professional practice by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA, 2008), and ASCA’s 2010 Ethical Standards for school counseling.
Also from John J. Schmidt:
0205540406 - Counseling in Schools: Comprehensive Programs of Responsive Services for All Students, 5/e - ©2008
0205403336 - Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling and Human Services: Multiple Influences on Self-Concept Development, 1/e - ©2006
