School Counseling

Chapter 12

MED 540

Standard 2 Benchmark 5

Standard 5 Benchmark 1

Chapter 12

à     Poverty levels are high

à     19 percent American children have lived in poverty

à     Rural areas present fewer opportunities for single mothers

à     School counselors must also be social activists

à     Coordination of services utilizing community resources

à     “Poverty is the parent of school failure, job failure, emotional imbalance and social rejection”

à     US cultural and racial balance by century end

à     School counselors will help teachers with diversity and cultural differences

à     Diversity key in counselors role

à     Testing will need to respect diversity

à     Tests that are not culturally or socio economically biased will need to be used

à     Multiculturalism will be fourth force following psychodynamic, behavioral and humanistic explanations of human behavior