The Components of Comprehensive Counseling

Created By: Shannon Zirpoli

What are four components of comprehensive counseling?

• Guidance Curriculum

• Individual Planning

• Responsive Services

• System Support

Comprehensive School Counseling includes:

Guidance Curriculum• includes structured lessons implemented through

classroom and group activities for all grades. The purpose is to enhance awareness, skill development and application needed for the following three development areas:

• Personal/Social Development

• Academic Success

• Career Development

Individual Planning

• includes counseling to assist all students to plan, monitor, and manage their own academic achievement as well as their personal and career development. Issues addressed include the following:

• Personal and Social development of a healthy self- concept and student goal development

• Academic which include study skills, knowledge of educational opportunities test score data and lifelong learning

• Career knowledge of a career opportunities, knowledge of an education/ career plan and possible occupational training

Responsive Services

• includes counseling or referral activities to meet the immediate needs and concerns of students. Responsive services includes personal counseling; crisis counseling; agency referral; consultation with parents, teachers, and other professionals, support groups; and problem solving. Issues addressed include the following:

• Personal/Social Problems- Relationships, Abuse and Grief/ Loss /Coping

• Academic- Absent/ Tardiness/ Truancy

• School and Classroom Conduct

System Support

• includes indirect guidance management activities that maintain and enhance the total guidance program. Responsibilities in this component include staff and community relations, special research projects, committees, professional development, and student support

The Key Elements of the Annual Agreement

• The Annual Agreement is a management tool that outlines how each counselor will use his/her time, specific responsibilities, reflects the school counseling program's mission and program goals, and identifies areas for professional development. It is created and signed within the first two months of the school year.

• It stipulates the counselor's caseload and duties of their of work.  The percentage of time aligns with the recommended use of time with 80% allocated to the delivery of the school counseling program or there is a clear explanation in the narrative why it does not. This document ensures formal discussion and agreement about what the program will look like and how each counselor will be working.

Quality Comprehensive School Counseling Should Promote

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