Counseling Students In Levels 2 And 3

Target interventions to the students who need help the most! How do you make counseling effective and efficient when both counselors and students are pressed for time? The answer: by identifying and working with students who are most in need of counseling services through a PBIS/RTI framework. This user-friendly guide presents three counseling approaches designed to work at levels 2 and 3 of the PBIS and RTI frameworks. Here you’ll find: Evidence-based interventions and counseling best practices Guidance on successful implementation within a PBIS/RTI framework Forms and resources to help busy professionals Case studies, vignettes, and practical examples

This is a user-friendly, practical guide to school-based mental health counseling approaches for K-12 school counselors, psychologists and other mental health professionals

Target interventions to the students who need help the most! How do you make counseling effective and efficient when both counselors and students are pressed for time? The answer: by identifying and working with students who are most in need of counseling services through a PBIS/RTI framework. This user-friendly guide presents three counseling approaches designed to work at levels 2 and 3 of the PBIS and RTI frameworks. Here you’ll find: Evidence-based interventions and counseling best practices Guidance on successful implementation within a PBIS/RTI framework Forms and resources to help busy professionals Case studies, vignettes, and practical examples

Counseling Special Populations in Schools provides school-based mental health professionals with practical, specific strategies for counseling special populations of students who are at risk for academic, social, emotional, and behavioral problems in school. These special populations include students who are homeless, living in foster care, involved with the juvenile justice system, LGBTQ, pregnant or parenting, gifted, in military families, at-risk for school failure and dropout, and impacted by incarcerated parents. Each chapter focuses on one group of students, highlighting critical background information and providing evidence-informed counseling approaches and strategies to promote resilience and support student development. Chapters provide specific information about how to use basic counseling skills, as well as more advanced counseling techniques such as Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing, to address the needs and challenges of these special populations of students. This advanced-level counseling book is an excellent resource for mental health professionals and graduate students who want to be able to provide effective counseling services for all students.

Ready your school counseling program for the kids who need it the most! When you provide the right intervention for a student in need, you make a positive classroom experience possible—for that student and the entire school. This hands-on guide offers a systematic, evidence-based approach to implementing high-quality, targeted, data-driven interventions within an MTSS. Features include: • Thorough exploration of Tier 2 and Tier 3 activities • Guidelines for progress monitoring and collaboration with teachers and family • Templates for developing action plans • Web-based resources, including downloadable templates and a discussion guide • Personal stories from practicing counselors and teachers of the year

Measure the difference you make in students′ academic, career, and personal/social development! Today′s school counselors are under enormous pressure to document their effectiveness by using data and producing quantitative accountability reports—whether or not they′ve had the appropriate training. This authoritative guide from highly respected counselor educators and trainers gives preservice and inservice school counselors the tools to knowledgeably identify evidence-based practices in their field and to use data in designing, implementing, and evaluating programs and interventions. Evidence-Based School Counseling provides a practical process for using evidence to determine three critical issues: what needs to be done, which interventions should be implemented, and whether or not the interventions are effective. Aligned with the American School Counselor Association′s National Model, this resource offers counselors skill-building guidelines for: Selecting, collecting, and analyzing data for informed planning Carrying out action research and building collaborative partnerships Measuring student learning and behavior change Communicating results to stakeholders, and more As counselors successfully incorporate data-based decision making and program planning into their work, they will witness positive academic and personal changes in the lives of their students.

Part VI Creativity, Expressive Arts, and Play Therapy: Evidence-Based Strategies, Approaches and Practices with Youth, and Future Directions and Trends in Counseling Youth -- 14 Creativity, Expressive Arts, and Play Therapy -- 15 Strategies, Approaches, and Evidence-Based Practices -- 16 Future Directions and Trends in Counseling Children and Adolescents -- Index

This edition provides school counselors with new ways for moving from reactive to proactive and from random to intentional counseling. By using data to determine what all students deserve to receive and when some students need more, it offers effective ways to provide proactive school counseling services, stay accountable, and advocate for systemic change. Includes data analysis, intervention strategies, methods aligned with standards, examples, artifacts, and other tools.