Counseling Skills for Teachers [Paperback]

This updated edition expertly guides teachers to be effective helpers when called upon to respond quickly and appropriately to students' interpersonal, social, and emotional needs.This updated edition expertly guides teachers to be effective helpers when called upon to respond quickly and appropriately to students' interpersonal, social, and emotional needs.Relationship building is key to the successful mentoring and teaching of the youth of today. Teachers roles extend far beyond the dissemination of content and information to students. This book is an indispensable reference for both students in teacher education programs and experienced classroom teachers.Preface
About the Authors
1. Adjusting to Multiple Roles
A Skilled Helper
Counseling Skills for Teachers
Life Inside the Classroom
A Day in the Life
Suggested Activities
Suggested Reading
2. Understanding the Process of Helping
Some Suggestions for Learning Counseling Skills
Helping Attitudes
An Integrative Approach to Counseling
A Review of the Counseling Process
The Link Between the Counseling Process and Helping Skills
Suggested Activities
Suggested Reading
3. Assessing Children's Problems
Noticing Symptoms of Distress
Stress in the Lives of Children
The Assessment Process
Collecting Additional Information
What to Do With the Assessment
Suggested Activities
Suggested Reading
4. Developing Skills of Helping
Internal State of Mind
Attending
Listening
Empathic Resonance
Exploration Skills
Action Skills
Suggested Activities
Suggested Reading