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Luk-Fong, Pattie Yuk Yee – School Psychology International, 2013
This article documents a parent education presentation on "External conditions affecting a harmonious family" within a school-based parent education programme in Hong Kong. The presentation adopted an eco-systems approach for understanding families and argued for the need to include the external conditions for a harmonious family as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Approach, Parent Education, School Counseling
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Hooper, Lisa M.; Britnell, Heather Brandt – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
The authors discuss the challenges that researchers from university and community systems face in gaining access to and partnering with K-12 school systems to conduct research. Borrowing from Szapocznik, Hervis, and Schwartz's (2003) brief strategic family theory and therapy and Bronfenbrenner's (1979, 1986) ecological systems theory, the authors…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Health Services, Mental Health, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dockery, Donna J. – Journal of School Counseling, 2012
School counselors are expected to develop programs that promote academic success for all students, including those at risk for dropping out of school. Knowledge of key indicators of potential dropouts and current trends in dropout prevention research may assist school counselors in better understanding this complex issue. Implementing recommended…
Descriptors: Dropouts, School Counselors, Academic Achievement, Risk
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Choate, Laura; Curry, Jennifer R. – Professional School Counseling, 2009
While today's girls are learning that they can achieve at the highest educational and professional levels, they also receive strong cultural messages that portray girls and women according to limiting sexual stereotypes. The trend toward the sexualization of girls is increasing in contemporary culture and can negatively impact girls' academic,…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Comprehensive Programs, Advocacy
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McAdams, Charles R., III; Foster, Victoria A.; Dotson-Blake, Kylie; Brendel, Johnston M. – Journal of School Counseling, 2009
School counselors may be in the best position to identify troubled students and intervene before an act of school violence occurs. Current education literature challenges school counselors to expand their knowledge of social, environmental and family dynamics and the influences of those dynamics on student violence. This article will (a) introduce…
Descriptors: Violence, Family Relationship, Power Structure, School Counselors
Branch, Robert; And Others – 1991
This paper presents a model for use by college students and their advisors as they consider an off-campus internship within business or industry as part of a degree program. The following six components of the systems model as applied to internships are explained: (1) identifying student career goals; (2) investigating potential host environments;…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods, Field Experience Programs
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Saginak, Kelli A.; Dollarhide, Colette T. – Journal of School Counseling, 2006
This article provides school counselors with a plan for securing administrative support for implementing of comprehensive school counseling programs. Systems and systems theory is introduced to explain systemic change in the context of leadership. Leadership theory is presented to assist school counselors in leading systemic change and securing…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Counseling, School Counselors, Program Development