School Counseling

Chapter 12

MED 540

Chapter 12

à     Counseling profession reacts to social economic and political changes

à     Wide range of services will be required in order to work with future students

à     Students come form differing family structures

à     Students will have wide range of personal, social physical and education concerns

à     Violence will have more of an impact on schools of future unless it is stopped

à     Drugs, alcohol, teen pregnancy continue impact

à     Counselors need to help students make good, healthy choices

à     New social issues will also emerge in future

à     Accurate assessment will be vital

à     Designing services to meet needs will also be important

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

à     Schools of future will reflect diversity

à     US population expected to grow by 14% over next 15 years

à     Cultural diversity will expand