School counselors are tasked with contributing to a safe and preventative school climate serving students' academic, career, and social/emotional needs through comprehensive school counseling program implementation. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) prioritizes a positive school climate, is widely implemented in the United…

The purpose of this paper is to provide the beginning counselor with an overview of prevention concepts. Prevention is a relatively new emphasis in community efforts to stem the rising costs of substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors. The paper discusses agent, host, and environmental prevention models and how they relate to causal theories…

Reviews coping theory and attribution theory to present a systematic approach to stress management counseling that focuses on teaching clients to diagnose life events and to choose the coping response that is most useful for them. Stresses the importance of counselors becoming proficient in a variety of coping techniques. (LLL)

Contends that recording has become an administrative rather than a clinical activity, retroactive rather than proactive, bringing its usefulness to clinical practice in question. Presents suggestions for improving the clinical record and for returning it to its proper place as a vital component of clinical practice. (LLL)

This paper on staff development proposes one dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), Stages of Concern, as a diagnostic tool for use by counselors, administrators, staff developers and other change facilitators who are responsible for the timing and delivery of staff development experiences. A rationale for staff development, the…

This paper discusses strategies for the evaluation of severely handicapped students. The shortcomings of standardized assessment techniques are reviewed, and the appropriateness of normative comparison and the developmental model with this population is discussed. The role of the school psychologist in student assessment is described, and the need…

This article outlines a developmental/psychosocial framework for graduate student advising based on existing conceptions of graduate student advisement, knowledge about educational mentoring, and human development theory. The model identifies graduate advisors with six characteristics essential to creating a developmental context for advisement…

This document notes that counselors are increasingly called upon to develop activities intended to prevent rather than remediate. It describes a model by which counselors can systematically develop, implement, and then evaluate a preventive intervention, and it suggests that the most beneficial approach is group planning with the involvement of…

This guide describes the Comprehensive Guidance Program model and outlines a process for tailoring the program model to meet the needs of the vast array of Texas public schools. It provides quality program standards designed to enhance district and campus efforts to improve the guidance programs in order to more effectively guide the development…

This booklet provides guidelines for writing job descriptions for secondary school counselors in Georgia, based on the "Program Planning Guide: Georgia Comprehensive Guidance" model. The counselor's role, as described in the document, focuses on four components: the guidance curriculum, individual planning, responsive services, and…

This paper offers advice to school psychologists concerning the future of their profession in relation to crisis intervention. Crisis intervention will be more of a priority as the year 2000 approaches; therefore school psychologists need to expand their role and change their focus to include intervention to all children. School psychologists need…

Demonstrates via the case study method that techniques of behavior counseling are applicable to change agentry in larger social systems. Describes the use and validation of a behavioral model in program planning, implementation, and evaluation. (RC)

Discusses potential problems in the application of mental health consultation to other departments within an umbrella institution such as a university. Highlights possible hazardous consequences to the consultee, to the consultant, and to the organizational systems. Presents some remedies and precautionary measures. (Author/RC)

A guide for faculty advisers is presented that addresses aspects of the advising process that are often not discussed. Objectives are to accomplish the following: to provide a working definition and theoretical framework for advising, to show with model conversations the theory in practice, to provide procedures for advisor self-evaluation, and to…

This document, one of five volumes that compose the Pupil Personnel Services Recommended Practices and Procedures Manual, is designed to provide school personnel with practices and procedures concerning guidance and counseling for Illinois school students. The first chapter discusses pupil personnel services philosophy and major concepts, as well…