The School Counselor's Guide to Surviving the First Year

The School Counselor’s Guide to Surviving the First Year offers a comprehensive look into the first-year school counseling experience.

This practical guide includes topics from internship to professional development from an intimate perspective within the context of real-life scenarios. Drawing from personal experiences, journal articles, textbooks, and excerpts by numerous professional school counselors, it fuses what a school counseling trainee learns in their graduate program and the field experience they get into one unique guide. Emphasizing hands-on approaches, this volume offers personal as well as professional steps toward success in the ins and outs of counseling.

This book is a valuable toolkit for the developmental journey of school counselors in-training and beginning school counselors.

Heather M. Couch is a school counselor in Greater Cincinnati, USA, and an active member in her community.