Elementary School Counseling: A Commitment to Caring and Community Building

by Worzbyt,John C.

• ISBN13: 9781560325055
• ISBN10: 1560325054
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Elementary School Counselingis a resource guide for graduate-level elementary school counselors-in-training and for practicing elementary school counselors. Its primary function is to explain how to plan, organize, active, and control an effective elementary school counseling program. It expands on five developmental dimensions: physical, social, self-conceptual, cognitive, and career-oriented. The book contains 89 activities, each with specific procedures for classroom use. In addition, it outlines methods for helping existing elementary school counseling programs to reach their full potential.

Author Biography

John C. Worzbyt, Ed.D., is Professor and Coordinator of School Counseling Certification Studies in the Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has 35 years of experience in education as a teacher, elementary school counselor, and counselor educator Kathleen O'Rourke, Ed.D., is retired from the Altoona Area School District where she spent 38 years as a teacher, elementary school counselor, counseling department chair, and coordinator of prevention/intervention programs Claire J. Dandeneau, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has nearly twenty years of counseling and administrative experience, having worked in juvenile corrections, residential and treatment programs, and university training facilities

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xii
List of Activities	xiv
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxi
PART I CREATING A 21ST-CENTURY PARTNERSHIP	1	(98)
Elementary School Education in the 21st Century	3	(26)
Education in Transition	4	(3)
Elementary School Education	7	(19)
The School as Community	8	(3)
A Curriculum with Coherence	11	(12)
A Climate for Learning	23	(1)
Patterns to Fit Purpose	23	(2)
A Commitment to Character	25	(1)
Conclusion	26	(1)
Bibliography	26	(3)
Elementary School Counseling Programs in the 21st Century	29	(24)
Elementary School Counseling: A Vision with a Clear Purpose	29	(1)
A Blueprint for Success	30	(17)
Organizing for Success	31	(9)
A Partnership with Possibilities	40	(7)
Rationale for a Partnership Perspective	47	(2)
Bibliography	49	(4)
Elementary School Counselors Who Make a Difference	53	(46)
Counselors as Leaders	55	(1)
Effective Leadership Practices	56	(21)
Challenging the Process	57	(3)
Inspire a Shared Vision	60	(5)
Enabling Others to Act	65	(4)
Modeling the Way	69	(4)
Encourage the Heart	73	(4)
Counselors as Managers	77	(1)
Effective Management Strategies	78	(4)
Strategic Planning Questions	78	(1)
People-Building (Managing People)	79	(3)
Counselors as Social Change Agents	82	(1)
Effective Social Change Agent Strategies	83	(6)
Notice That Something Is Wrong	86	(1)
Have the Courage to Make a Difference	86	(1)
Devise Strategies to Bring about Change	86	(3)
Counselors as Service Providers	89	(1)
Effective Service Provider Strategies	90	(5)
Teaching	91	(1)
Counseling	91	(1)
Collaboration/Consultation	92	(1)
Coordination	92	(1)
Training and Development	93	(2)
Bibliography	95	(4)
PART II MANAGING A RESPONSIVE PROGRAM	99	(70)
Strategic Planning	101	(48)
Why Do Counselors Fail to Plan?	101	(1)
Benefits of Strategic Planning	102	(1)
The Need Hierarchy of School Counseling	103	(2)
Exist	103	(1)
Expand	104	(1)
Establish	104	(1)
Elevate	105	(1)
Elongate	105	(1)
The Strategic Planning Process	105	(43)
Step 1: Complete Preplanning Activities	106	(4)
Step 2: Assess the External Environment	110	(2)
Step 3: Scan the Internal Environment	112	(1)
Step 4: Create a Vision for the Future	113	(1)
Step 5: Define the Program Mission	114	(2)
Step 6: List Desired Program Goals	116	(2)
Step 7: Conduct a Needs Assessment	118	(13)
Step 8: Establish Priority Goals	131	(2)
Step 9: Develop Program Goals/Curriculum	133	(6)
Step 10: Implement the Program	139	(2)
Step 11: Control for Success	141	(7)
Bibliography	148	(1)
Meeting Program Goals Through Effective and Efficient Decision-Making	149	(20)
The Ternary Decision-Making Model	150	(2)
An Organized System of Delivery	150	(1)
A Defined Process of Implementation	151	(1)
The Strengths and Benefits of the Ternary Model	152	(8)
Programmatic Benefits of the Ternary Model	152	(3)
Multiple Service Providers Increase Efficiency of the Ternary Model	155	(3)
Cost-Efficiency of the Ternary Model	158	(2)
Ternary Decision-Making Model in Action	160	(7)
Primary Interventions	161	(1)
Secondary Interventions	162	(3)
Tertiary Interventions	165	(2)
Bibliography	167	(2)
PART III COUNSELING AND THE CURRICULUM: A CARING APPROACH	169	(250)
Physical Caring	171	(40)
Human Development	171	(2)
The Physically Healthy Child	173	(1)
Six Categories of Risk	173	(10)
Unintentional and Intentional Injuries	174	(2)
Use of Tobacco Products	176	(1)
Alcohol and Other Drug Use	177	(1)
Sexual Behaviors: Infections, Disease, and Unwanted Pregnancies	178	(2)
Diet and Disease	180	(1)
Insufficient Physical Activity	181	(2)
The Cumulative Effects of Risk	183	(1)
Enhancing Physical Well-Being through Caring Choices	183	(4)
Growth and Development and Caring	184	(1)
Nutrition Caring	184	(1)
Personal Health Caring	185	(1)
Risk-Management Caring	185	(1)
Consumer and Community Health and Caring	186	(1)
Environmental Caring	186	(1)
The Counselor's Role	187	(2)
Physical Caring Activities	189	(16)
Additional Ideas for Physical Caring	205	(3)
Bibliography	208	(3)
Personal/Emotional Caring	211	(54)
Personal/Emotional Development	211	(5)
Self-Concept: Who Am I?	212	(1)
Self-Esteem: How Do I Feel about Myself?	213	(1)
Emotional Development	214	(2)
The Personal/Emotional Healthy Child	216	(1)
Understanding the Need for Personal/Emotional Caring	217	(6)
Depression	217	(1)
Suicide	218	(1)
Eating Disorders	219	(1)
Lowered Self-Esteem	220	(1)
Stress	220	(1)
Violence	221	(1)
The Cumulative Effects of Risk	222	(1)
Enhancing Personal/Emotional Well-Being through Caring Choices	223	(14)
Self-Awareness and Caring	225	(1)
Decision-Making and Caring	226	(1)
Character Building and Caring	227	(1)
Self-Esteem and Caring	228	(3)
Emotional Management and Caring	231	(3)
Communication Skills and Caring	234	(2)
Stress Management and Caring	236	(1)
Resistance Skills and Caring	237	(1)
The Counselor's Role	237	(4)
Personal/Emotional Caring Activities	241	(15)
Additional Ideas for Personal/Emotional Caring	256	(6)
Bibliography	262	(3)
Social Caring	265	(42)
Social Development	265	(4)
Perspective Taking	266	(1)
Social Experience	267	(1)
Peer Relationships	268	(1)
The Socially Healthy Child	269	(1)
Understanding the Need for Social Caring	270	(3)
Characteristics of Low Social-Status Children	271	(1)
The Cumulative Effects of Risk	272	(1)
Enhancing Social Well-Being through Caring Choices	273	(13)
Relationship Building and Caring	274	(1)
Diversity and Caring	275	(3)
Conflict Management and Caring	278	(4)
Healthful Family Relationships and Caring	282	(1)
Responsible Friendship Building and Caring	283	(2)
Healthful Community Building and Caring	285	(1)
The Counselor's Role	286	(3)
Social Caring Activities	289	(11)
Additional Ideas for Social Caring	300	(4)
Bibliography	304	(3)
Cognitive Caring	307	(64)
Cognitive Development	307	(10)
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development	308	(3)
Information Processing Theory	311	(4)
Social Interaction and Cognitive Development	315	(2)
The Cognitive Healthy Child	317	(1)
Understanding the Need for Cognitive Caring	318	(5)
The Cumulative Effects of Risk	322	(1)
Enhancing Cognitive Well-Being through Caring Choices	323	(24)
Attention and Caring	325	(3)
Memory and Caring	328	(3)
Thinking and Caring	331	(4)
Decision-Making and Caring	335	(1)
STOP, THINK & GO Decision-Making	336	(5)
Study Skills and Caring	341	(2)
Cognitive Restructuring and Caring	343	(2)
Self-Instruction Training and Caring	345	(1)
Thought-Stopping and Caring	345	(2)
The Counselor's Role	347	(2)
Cognitive Caring Activities	349	(15)
Additional Ideas for Cognitive Caring	364	(5)
Bibliography	369	(2)
Career and Societal Caring	371	(48)
Life Career Development	371	(1)
Career and Societal Caring: The Healthy Child	372	(2)
Understanding the Need for Career and Societal Caring	374	(6)
The Cumulative Effects of Risk	379	(1)
Enhancing Career and Societal Caring through Caring Choices	380	(11)
The Concept of Work	380	(5)
Self-Understanding and Caring	385	(2)
Educational and Work Connections and Caring	387	(2)
Career Planning and Caring	389	(2)
The Counselor's Role	391	(11)
Career Education and the Home	395	(1)
Career Education and the Classroom	396	(3)
Career Education and the Community	399	(3)
Career and Societal Caring Activities	402	(10)
Additional Ideas for Career and Societal Caring	412	(5)
Bibliography	417	(2)
PART IV CHALLENGING THE FUTURE	419	(52)
Caring for School Counseling Programs Today and Tomorrow	421	(34)
Primary Intervention Initiatives	422	(20)
School-Wide Programs	424	(6)
Volunteer Programs	430	(7)
School and Community Partnerships	437	(5)
Secondary Intervention Initiatives	442	(5)
Secondary Integrative Service Teams	442	(2)
Networking to Broaden Support	444	(3)
Tertiary-Level Initiatives	447	(4)
Community Resources and Services Identification	447	(2)
Reintegration	449	(2)
Overall Initiative: Public Relations	451	(3)
Bibliography	454	(1)
A Circle of Caring	455	(16)
A Caring Physical Environment	457	(2)
Activities	458	(1)
A Caring Interpersonal Climate	459	(4)
Activities	460	(3)
A Caring Curriculum with Coherence	463	(3)
Activities	464	(2)
A Caring Community beyond the Schoolhouse Doors	466	(3)
Activities	467	(2)
Bibliography	469	(2)
Index	471	(16)
About the Authors	487