High School Counselor
Support and guidance for high school students
Traci Holmes-Torres
A School Counselor
BBA- Prairie View A&M UniversityMS- Tennessee State UniversityEd.D- Trevecca Nazarene University
Back to school Tips:
Tips for coping with back-to-school anxiety:1. Get a good night’s sleep.2. Eat a good breakfast.3. Get to school early.4. Find a place to sit in the classroom that you feel comfortable.5. Take a couple of deep breaths, you can do this, you’re not the only student with anxiety in the room.
step-by-step approach to guide students through their high school journey
BBA- Prairie View A&M UniversityMS- Tennessee State UniversityEd.D- Trevecca Nazarene University
Back to school Tips:
Tips for coping with back-to-school anxiety:1. Get a good night’s sleep.2. Eat a good breakfast.3. Get to school early.4. Find a place to sit in the classroom that you feel comfortable.5. Take a couple of deep breaths, you can do this, you’re not the only student with anxiety in the room.
step-by-step approach to guide students through their high school journey
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Anxiety Assessment
Nist and Diel (1990)
1-Never 2-Rarely 3-Sometimes 4-Often 5-Always
1. ____I have visible signs of nervousness such as sweaty palms, shaky hands, and so on right before a test.
2. ____I have “butterflies” in my stomach before a test.
3. ____I feel nauseated before a test.
4. ____I read through the test and feel that I do not know any of the answers.
5. ____I panic before and during a test.
6. ____My mind goes blank during a test.
ASCA Ethical Standards
A RESPONSIBILITY TO STUDENTS-Supporting Student Development A1a. Have a primary obligation to the students, who are to be treated with dignity and respect as unique individual. Before sessions begin, I will review my primary obligations to the student, who will always be treated with dignity and respect.A.2. Confidentiality -A2b Inform students of the purposes, goals, techniques, rules and procedures under which they may receive counseling. Disclosure includes informed consent and clarification of the limits of confidentiality. During our sessions we will review our purpose and goals we will use during our counseling sessions, I will also discuss the limits of confidentially. A.3. Comprehensive School Counseling Program A3a-Provide students with a culturally responsive school counseling program that promotes academic, career and social/emotional development and equitable opportunity and achievement outcomes for all students. During our session as a school counselor, I will always culturally respond to your academic, career social/emotional development at all times. A.4c. Academic, Career and Social/Emotional Planning. A4c-Identify and examine gaps in college and career access and address both intentional and unintentional biases in postsecondary and career counseling. It is my responsibility identify and examine gaps addressing both intentional and unindent. As a school counselor, I will identify and examine gaps in college and career access. A.9. Serious and Foreseeable Harm to Self and Others. A9D-Provide culturally responsive mental health resources to parents/guardians. As a school counselor I always provide culturally responsive resources to my students and parents.
Group name: Attendance is important
- Group name __Attendance is important ___________________ Goal __To decrease the number of unexcused missed days from school. Target Group ___9th thur 12th grade_____________________________________ Data used to identify students _Daily attendance records_____________________________________ Counselor ASCA Domain, standard and competency Outline of group sessions to be delivered Resources needed Process Data Perception Data Outcome Data Project start/end Ms. Torres 1-Identify students 2-Identify and work on skills to increase student attendance. 3. continue working on skills 4. end of sessions survey, compare test scores to previous scores. 1. Class schedules 2. Self-evaluation surveys 3. Materials for interventions Who: 9th thru 12th grade Where: Counselor office When: During Independent Study and after school. Start- six weeks after the first day of school. End- after midterms.