Successful Strategies for Improving Counseling Programs [Hardcover]

In this book, Alice Healy Sesno's experience as a counselor and administrator provides powerful insights to both counselors and administrators. Start right, stay right, and build a distinguished counseling program in your school. Avoid the mistakes that can put an essential service in jeopardy. Discover how to win respectand heartsof students, parents, and other school personnel for a valuable service. With individual strategies for counselors and principals, Dr. Sesno seeks to blend these two professional groups together to forge a counseling program that can withstand budgeting attacks and downsizing demands.Alice Healy Sesnohas over 30 years of experience in the field of education as an author, college instructor, administrator, counselor, and teacher. She has served across the country in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

The Counselor's Role
1. Know Who You Are!
2. Manage Your Boss
3. Meet Your Colleagues
4. Set up a Professional Office
5. Become a Master Planner
6. Get Your Plan Approved
7. Meet Your Constituencies
8. Maintain a Working Schedule
9. Create a Network of Advocates
10. Understand the Budgeting Process
11. Maintain a Log of Activities/Results
12. Master the Memo
13. Speak Effectively with Others
14. Plan Ahead for the Help You Need (Finding a Mentor)
15. Build Your Program, Step One
16. Build Your Program, Step Two
17.Maintain a Suicide Watch
18. Beat the Bullies! Maintain Gang Awareness
19. Self-Esteem is a Success Secret
20. Provide Career-Building Experiences
21. Become Your Teachers' Ally
22. Keep Teachers Involved!
23.Dress for Successand Rapport!
24. Consider Outreach Services
25. Cover Your Assets!
26. Maintain Your Morale
27. Master the Interviewing Process
28. Learn Psychological First Aid
29. Confront Cheating
30. Interrupt Academic Self-Destruction
31. Prepare Kids for Relocation
32. Develop Peer Mentoring Skills
33. Buil3v