Developmental Guidance:

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Developmental Guidance

• The Future

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Technology the School Counselor

• Blum - 2-62 and page 488
• Wittmer - p. 326 NBCC Ethical Standards for Web
  Counseling
• Wittmer Chapter 30
• Russell Sabella -www.schoolcounselor.com

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• All students should feel as comfortable with a
  keyboard as a chalkboard as comfortable with a
  laptop as a textbook (Wittmer, p. 337)

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Uses of Computers for S. C.

• Supervision
• Counseling issues to share with other counselors
• Interventions with children
• Extensively with career development

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The Internet

• 1985 - 2000 computers were connected to the
  Internet
• Today - 30 million are connected, this number
  doubles every year
• 1997 - 100 million used the Internet
• 2005 - may surpass 1 billion

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Technologies Enhance the Work of School
Counselors

• Georgia Bd of Regents and GA State Bd of
  Education offers much
• Keypals
• Hewlett Packard
• Aids with Helping Children with Disabilities,
  Learning about Other Cultural/Ethnic/Racial Groups

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Helping School Counselors

• Therascribe (helps with IEPs)
• Databases are available
• Listservers (see Wittmer 345-6)
• ICN
• CESNET
• ACASTUDENT

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Other Uses of Computer Technology

• See Wittmer, pp. 248-251
• Technologies for Collaboration
• Technologies for Accountability
• Intervention Delivery

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Cybercounseling or Web Counseling

• This is the attempt to provide counseling
  services in an Internet environment (e.g.,
  e-mail, chat rooms, video conferencing).
• example www.psychology.com/holmes

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Cybercounseling

• This is the most talked about and the most
  controversial.
• ICN remarks, June 2001
• See pp. 353-354
• NBCC Ethical Standards p. 358-9
• ACA On-line Standards

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Questions to Ponder

• How can we ethically and effectively do
  counseling on the Internet?
• What services can be ethically and effectively
  provided on the Internet?

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The Future

• Scmidt

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The Future of Counseling Serving Students of
Tomorrow

• We will focus on 3 aspects
• 1. The Counselors of the Future
• 2. The Students of the Future
• 3. The Schools of Tomorrow

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The Counselors of the Future

• New generation of counselors
• Increase of elementary counselors
• More employment opportunities
• Counselors must be computer competent
• Technology competent

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Future counselors must face

• New curricula emphases, environmental
  conservation, international orientation, longer
  school day and year, cultural diversity
• Changes in careers over a persons life span

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Future Counselors

• transient society
• changing families
• latchkey children
• positive and productive relationships among all
  racial/ cultural/ethnic and religious populations

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Future Counselors

• Need for elimination of prejudice and the
  substitution of respect and dignity must begin at
  school
• Examination of our own biases and prejudices
• Accept diversity
• Monitor school programs and policies for prejudice

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Multiculturalism

• Pedersen (1991) presented multiculturalism as the
  fourth force in professional counseling. It is
  complementary to the 3 forces psychodynamic,
  behavioral, and humanistic explanations of human
  behavior.

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Multiculturalism

• Multiculturalism must be applied in all
  counseling relationships and processes in the
  future.

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The Students of the Future

• Who will be the students of the future and for
  what reason will they seek assistance from the
  school counselor?
• What will they be like? Are they similar to 10
  years ago? 20 years ago? 30 years ago?

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Students of the Future

• In nearly a century, the s. c. profession has
  moved from a limited focus on vocational training
  and job placement to a wide vision of delivering
  a broad range of personal, social, educational,
  and career services to diverse populations.

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Students

• Will the students of the 21st century need an
  array of counseling services to optimize
  educational development and assure success in
  life?

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Students of Tomorrow

• Yes, like students of today, they will require
  the following

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Students

• Students of tomorrow will require services to
  develop skills, acquire information, and attain
  knowledge to make appropriate decisions about
  relationships, educational goals, and career
  aspirations.

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Remedial Needs of Future Students

• Continuing redefinition and restructuring of the
  family (e.g.., divorce, remarriage,
  cohabitation, dual careers)
• Prevention and intervention will have an emphasis
  (I.e..,

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Educational Programs Counseling Services of the
Future

• Assist students with decision-making, coping
  skills, establishing peer relationships
• Collaborate with teachers, parents and other
  professionals

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Developmental Needs

• Students will have the same biological,
  emotional, social and educational expectation as
  do students of today.
• Stages of developmental theorists will likely
  hold true

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Future Developmental Needs

• However, the impact of a changing world will
  remarkably alter specific aspects and elements of
  the developmental process.
• (technology, medical advances, terminal illnesses)

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Povertys Effect on Future

• We must pay attention to economic disparities in
  our country.
• 1/4 of our children lived in poverty in 2000.
• If this continues, we have to be social
  activists. We must collaborate with social
  workers, nurses, etc..

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Poverty

• Howe (1991) said that Poverty is the parent of
  school failure, job failure, emotional imbalance,
  and social rejection.
• The future of school counseling services are
  significantly influenced by our success or
  failure to address poverty.

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Diversity

• School counselors must act as advocates for all
  students
• School counselors must address equality, design
  appropriate services, etc..
• School counselors will play a pivotal role in
  helping teachers become aware of cultural

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Diversity

• differences and enabling schools to celebrate
  cultural diversity.
• Diversity has to be embedded in the philosophy
  and mission of the school

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Schools of Tomorrow

• We can expect schools of tomorrow to reflect the
  diversity of the US society.
• The diversity will include
• 1. a need to adapt to technological changes and
  advances

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Schools of Tomorrow

• 2. the reality of an increasing life span that
  will also lengthen the dying process.
• 3. multiculturalism as an emerging significant
  force in education
• 4. concern with health care and new diseases

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• 5. poverty as a divisive force in schools and
  society
• 6. continued changes in employment trends and how
  the work week is defined
• 7. increased violence and loss of security in US
  communities

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Future Counselors Must

• 1. Develop a broader knowledge of human
  development throughout the life span.
• 2. Adapt to technology
• 3. Increase the use of group process
• 4. Expand professional development
• 5. Measure the outcome of services