Handbook of School Counseling [Paperback]

The mission of this forty-eight chapter Handbookis to provide a comprehensive reference source that integrates counseling theory, research and practice into one volume. It is designed to meet the needs of entry-level practitioners from their initial placement in schools through their first three to five years of practice. It will also be of interest to experienced school counselors, counselor educators, school researchers, and counseling representatives within state and local governments.

Section 1: Introduction to the Field of School Counseling.   History of School Counseling.   A Concept of Best Practices in Training School Counselors.  School Counseling: Moving Towards Standards and Models.   Student Accomplishment: Equity and the School Counselors Role.   Understanding Yourself as a School Counselor.Section 2: Diversity and School Counseling.   The Acculturative Environment of Schools and the School Counselor: Goals and Roles that Create a Supportive Context for Immigrant Adolescents.  Immigrant Children and Youth in Schools.  Racial Harassment in American Schools. The Role of Ethnic Identity in the Practice of School Counseling.   Understanding and Implementing Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Affirmative Practices as School Counselors.   Social Class in School Counseling.  Disability in the Schools.   Race and Ethnicity in School Counseling. African American Empowerment in Secondary School Counseling.  Section 3: Student Development