What all does the job of a school counselor entail?
A lot! Counseling roles can be broken in to two different categories: proactive and responsive. In the proactive role, a counselor teaches classes, runs groups, facilitates outside agencies, works with parents, runs programs like peer mediation, and participates in some type of student support team. In the reactive role, a counselor sees students for individual counseling, meets with teachers who might be struggling with a student, and handles crisis situations (e.g. a student who is extremely upset and having an outburst). Counselors are also often the first-line social worker, dealing with families who need assistance or are struggling outside of school. What, in your opinion, is the primary role of a school counselor? How does one lay the groundwork for that role and then deliver on that? I see the primary role of the counselor to be a social-emotional educator. A counselor is a teacher just like a classroom teacher, but instead teaches a different subject area. A counselor might te
