ROLE AND FUNCTION OF COUNSELING/ GUIDANCE TEAM

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• ROLE AND FUNCTION OF COUNSELING/ GUIDANCE TEAM

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• Counselors
• Principle
• Teachers

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School Counselors

• Since students developmental needs are different
  in different levels of schools, counselors roles
  and services provided to students in particular
  schools are vary.
• Elementary, middle school, high school, higher
  education

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The Elementary School Counselor

• I- Counselor
• II- Consultant
• Counselor helps teachers, parents,
  administrators, and other professionals assist
  the student in dealing more effectively with
  developmental and adjustment problems.
• III- Coordinator
• Coordinating guidance activities with ongoing
  classroom and school activities.
• Intraschool and interagency referrals.

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• IV- Agent for Orientation
• Orienting child to the goals and environment of
  the elementary school.
• Planning group activities and consulting with
  teachers to help children learn and practice the
  relationship skills necessary in the school.
• V- Assessment
• Interpreting and gathering data.
• Understanding the impact of culture, the
  sociology of the school, and other environmental
  influences on student behavior

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• VI- Career Developer
• Coordinator and consultant in developing a
  continuous, sequential, and integrated program.
• VII- Agent of Prevention
• Developing programs that seek to anticipate,
  intervene in, and prevent the development of
  problems (such as learning difficulties,
  acting-out behavior, vandalism, depression etc.)

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• Group counseling brief counseling sessions (20
  to 40 min.) depending on the age and maturity of
  the children in once or twice a week.
• 5 to 8 students in a group.
• Focus on concerns either crisis-oriented (e.g.,
  abused children), problem-centered (e.g.,
  conflict resolution), or developmental (e.g.,
  learning social and personal aspects of
  development).

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• Developmental Counseling considers developmental
  stages by including important life tasks that all
  children must learn and accomplish.
• Developmental counseling assumes that
• All kind of experiences form the beliefs,
  behaviors, feelings, attitudes, and perceptions
  of children (either negative or positive).
• Developmental counseling program includes
  everyone and every aspects of an elementary
  school.
• It requires integration of guidance curriculum
  into daily instruction.
• It requires parent and teacher involvement.

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• Parental involvement
• Counselors inform parents about the counseling
  program through brochures, presentations at
  parent meetings, and individual contacts.
  Encourages them to participate in parent-teacher
  conferences, to enroll in parent education
  programs, to help with homework, to communicate
  effectively with their children, and to become
  volunteer to help with school programs.

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The Elementary School Counseloras Counselor

• Individual counseling Assessing the readiness of
  child for this type of relationship (language
  development, behavior, cognitive functioning,
  ability to understand the nature and purpose of a
  helping relationship).
• Play therapy and puppetry are the essential
  techniques for establishing rapport with children
  whose language development is not ready.

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• Role of parents
• (a) helping the school to understand the child,
• (b) acquiring greater understanding of their
  children,
• (c) learning and appreciating what the school is
  doing to help children,
• (d) using positive approaches to bring about
  behavioral change.

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• Teacher involvement
• Contributing to school guidance program through
  teacher surveys, committee reports, and annual
  program evaluations.
• Integrating guidance activities into daily
  instruction.
• Referring children who need counseling services.
• Fostering parent-school relationships.
• Being resource person for staff development
  (e.g., to present in-service workshops).

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The Middle/ Junior High School Counselor

• I- Counselor
• Both individual and group counseling.
• Small group and classroom guidance to teach new
  skills and share information.
• Peer helper programs assists counselors by
  helping students who are new to the school, being
  first-line helpers to students in need of
  counseling, referring them to the counselor,
  tutoring students who are having academic
  difficulty, and befriending students who have
  been rejected/ridiculed by their peers.

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• II- Transitional Services/ Orientation
• Aim to enable students to make smooth transitions
  from their childhood years to adolescence.
• Transitional services include
• coordinating visits of elementary students to the
  middle school
• orienting students who are entering the middle
  grades
• compiling packets of information to
  middle-graders and their parents become more
  familiar with the school
• scheduling field trips for graduating
  middle-graders to the high schools
• planning career exploration activities with
  teachers to help students relate educational
  plans to their career interests

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• III- Consultation
• Counselor helps teachers, parents,
  administrators, and other professionals assist
  the student in dealing more effectively regarding
  the developmental and adjustment needs of
  individual students.
• IV- Placement
• Counselors are involved in course and curricular
  placement of students.

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The High School Counselor

• The roles and functions of the high school
  counselor are similar to those of counselors in
  the elementary and middle/junior schools.
• Providing individual counseling (the shift from
  the preventive to the remedial in dealing with
  common counseling problems).
• Offering career planning assistance and
  information (more emphasis on decision-making
  /vocational, educational and marital choices).
• Administering and interpreting standardized test
  results.
• Assisting in college guidance, scholarships, and
  placement.
• Consulting.

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Counselors in Higher Education

• Employed in counseling, mental health, or
  psychological service centers.
• Personal, academic, and vocational counseling.
• Recently, group counseling has increased in
  popularity.
• Consulting with faculty, campus administrators,
  and leaders of student organizations.

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The role of the school administrator in the
school counseling program

• Role as a program leader and supporter
  Determines the success of the counseling program/
  responsible for communicating program
  characteristics and needs to school boards.
• Role as a program consultant and adviser
  Consultant on school needs/ school policies that
  affect counseling program functioning/ resolution
  of problems encountered by the program/
  procedures for program development and
  improvement.
• Role as a resource provider Allocation of
  resources, funds/ providing equipment.

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Teachers roles in the school counseling program

• Role as a listener-advisor The first line of
  contact between the student and school counseling
  program/ knows the student best/ communicates
  with students on daily basis/ source of trust and
  respect.
• Role as a referral and receiving agent Referral
  to the school counselor/ searching students who
  need counseling service/ encouraging students to
  seek counselor assistance/ supporting and
  reinforcing the outcome of counseling (receiving
  agent)
• Role as a human potential discoverer Identifying
  talented students.

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Teachers roles in the school counseling program

• Role as a career educator Integrating career
  education into teaching subject matter/developing
  positive attitudes and respect for all honest
  work/challenging adult-imposed biases/ promoting
  positive attitude to education, career
  preparation, and decision-making.
• Role as a human relations facilitator Providing
  favorable conditions and environment for
  learning/to be a model to demonstrate positive
  human relations.
• Role as a counseling program supporter Influence
  how students view and use the services/ influence
  colleagues and administrators. Preparing teachers
  to recognize, accept, and enjoy their roles in
  the school counseling program-taking course in
  guidance and counseling.

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The Counselor and Relationships with Other
Helping Professions

• The school counselor, as a member of a team,
  works with other helping professionals. Members
  of the team must understand the responsibilities
  of the team members. Responsibilities of the team
  members are
• The School Psychologist Identifying,
  intervening, and preventing mild disabilities and
  students at risk of failure/ using assessment
  tools/ consulting with teachers and parents to
  provide direct services to students with academic
  and behavioral problems in school.

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• The School Social Worker Help counselors to
  understand the home environment and the nature of
  students behavioral problems/ clarifying the
  nature of the childs problem and the parameters
  of social work services/ assessing the childs
  specific problem/ facilitating better
  relationships among school, community and
  students/ educational counseling with the child
  and his-her parents.
• Special Educator Work for maximizing the
  educational opportunities of students with
  disabilities.

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• School Health Personnel Part-time or full-time
  school nurse and or physician/ provide preventive
  health services for children (e.g., immunization
  shots)/ identifying children who need special
  medical treatment/ referrals for the treatment.
• Psychiatrists are physicians with specialized
  training in the treatment of behavioral
  abnormalities/ are permitted to use drugs in
  treatment.

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Text Book

• Gibson, R. L. Mitchell, M. H. (1995).
  Introduction to Counseling and Guidance. Fourth
  Edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Prentice
  Hall.