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Wake Up, Counselors!: Restoring Counseling Services for Troubled Teens
Contributor(s): Fibkins, William L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1610488180     ISBN-13: 9781610488181
Publisher: R & L Education
OUR PRICE: $65.10  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Counseling - Crisis Management
- Education | Professional Development
- Education | Student Life & Student Affairs
Dewey: 371.409
LCCN: 2013012116
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.79 lbs) 124 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Providing individual and group counseling for secondary school students was once a major priority for secondary school counselors. However, many guidance programs have abandoned this role, and counselors have become quasi-administrators who spend most of their time scheduling students for classes, managing mandated testing programs, resolving discipline issues, and advising students on college admissions. Counseling students on personal and well-being issues takes up a very small part of the time. In many school districts, social workers, student assistance counselors, and school psychologists have taken over the counseling duties. Critical issues are now causing school leaders to consider reorganizing school guidance staff so there is a cadre of counselors trained and charged with the mission of providing individual and group counseling for troubled teens. First, the number of troubled teens arriving at the schoolhouse door looking for help has exploded. Second, budget cuts have eliminated or drastically curtailed many of the services of social workers, student assistance counselors, and psychologists. The result? Many once open doors for help are now closed, and schools' counseling services are failing many students, parents, and educators in need of intervention. This book provides a new model in which well-trained counselors can once again regain their historic role in counseling troubled teens, parents, and training staff and students on the front lines to act -- not look the other way -- when they observe a student heading towards the margins of school life.

Contributor Bio(s): Fibkins, William L.: - William Fibkins is an author and consultant. His focus is on education reform, teacher retraining and mentoring, intervention on behalf of at-risk students and parents, reorganizing school counseling programs, and establishing a "Circle of Wellness " in schools to address student health and wellness issues.
 
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