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The Elementary / Middle School Counselor's Survival Guide, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-470-56085-3

July 2010

Jossey-Bass

320 pages

Description

An expanded edition filled with ideas, strategies, and tools for school counselors

This Survival Guide helps counselors plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the needs of all students. Step by step, the book walks readers through every aspect of the school counselor job, including: designing a comprehensive counseling program, communicating with students and fellow staff, facilitating groups, promoting positive school discipline, integrating a guidance curriculum, intervening in times of crisis, and taking personal and professional care of oneself.

  • Discusses how to reach out to diverse student and parent populations
  • Shows how to integrate the American School Counselor Association's National Model for designing, delivering, and evaluating a school's counseling program
  • Reveals how new technology can improve services to students and parents
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This comprehensive resource also includes a wealth of reproducible worksheets, letters, checklists, and forms designed to save time and effort for busy school counselors.

About the Author
JOHN J. (Jack) SCHMIDT, Ed.D., (Greenville, NC) is professor emeritus of Counselor Education at East Carolina University and has been the Executive Director of the International Alliance for Invitational Education since 2006. From 1989 until 2002, he chaired the Counselor and Adult Education Department at ECU. Schmidt served two terms on the North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors, and was a Director on the National Board of Certified Counselors from 2005 to 2008. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Making & Keeping Friends: Ready-to-Use Lessons, Stories, and Activities for Building Relationships (Jossey-Bass, 1997).