Department of Defense Education Activity School Counseling Services

2003 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (35) ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Lucy Gachenia ◽  
Margaret Mwenje

The school counseling program is meant to assist students to deal with psycho-social and behavioral challenges, which normally affect their academic performance. In order to achieve this goal, the Kenyan government has previously committed resources towards establishing counseling programs in schools. The aim of this study was to establish how effective these counseling programs are in assisting secondary school learners in Kiambu County to achieve academically. Primary data was derived from 80 high school adolescents, 8 counselors, and 8 academic Dean of Students who were purposively sampled from 8 schools that were randomly selected. The study was qualitatively done, and self-determination theory was used to guide the study. Data were analyzed for the identification of counseling program characteristics and student improvement indices. These were presented in tables, charts, frequencies, and percentages based on the responses from the respondents. Further, a correlation between the two variables of the study was examined. Findings depicted that 65.7% of the students sampled said that counseling services offered at school satisfied their needs, 74.3% reported an improvement in their academic performance as a result of those counseling services and 87% felt more positive about school life after receiving counseling services. The study concluded that comprehensive counseling programs improved academic performance among high school students. The study intended to inform education planners, principals, and administrators on the role counseling would play in enhancing academic achievement among secondary school students.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X2090209
Author(s):  
Jordon J. Beasley

An elementary school counseling department used data-informed practices in an effort to provide more effective school counseling services. This article provides a summary and evaluation of a girls’ relational aggression small group in an elementary setting. Results indicated that integrating friendship, conflict resolution, and self-affirmation into small group counseling affected behavior and social/emotional development. The school counselors were able to address preexisting relational aggression. This article offers implications for school counselors.


Author(s):  
Na Mi Bang ◽  
Haihong (Helen) Hu ◽  
Valerie G. Couture

The use of advanced technology has clearly affected counseling services provided to students by school counselors, as well as how counselors communicate with and support students. The American School Counseling Association (ASCA) has emphasized the importance of school counselors' use of technology and their collaboration with families and educators. It is important for school counselors to understand how technology influences schools so that they can provide the most appropriate and effective counseling services to students. This chapter explores what school counselors need to know to understand the importance of advanced technologies in school settings, as well as how school counselors can utilize diverse technologies, online resources, activities, and computer-based systems in their work with students. This chapter will help educators and counselors develop the knowledge and skills needed to competently address technology-related issues in schools.


2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delila Owens ◽  
Robert W. Simmons ◽  
Rhonda M. Bryant ◽  
Malik Henfield

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firman - Firman

Various activities in the community and education today are all digital, automatic and move from manual to online. This paper aims to formulate a strategy and approach to implementing school counseling in facing the 4.0 industrial revolution. Based on the discussion it can be concluded that the School Counselor / Counselor requires a new approach in preparing students / counselors to have competence and take opportunities in the changes to face the industrial revolution 4.0. The mellinial generation in the industrial revolution era 4.0 has the advantage of carrying out various activities at the same time, creative and prioritizing equality, critical and contributing in various ways. BK service programs and models needed by mellinial generation use more digital technology (online). School BK / Counselor teachers are required to have the ability to implement methods / service techniques oriented to students / counselors, with strategies, namely: encouraging and facilitating the generation of mellinial ideas -ide creative and innovative, modify ideas in giving birth to feedback, provide feedback and use information and experience formulating approaches / strategies and models of guidance and counseling services according to the needs of the next generation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Al Faiz

This article will provide a new paradigm of thinking and practical in counseling, it based on the needs of counseling services that have been merely empirical and determinist counseling that still do not have a good influence in helping to solve problems that occur on social, cultural, political and education phenomena in this time. Moreover, when the government provides a new curriculum 2013 that lead to the formation of character like a soft skill competencies, which is very important at this time. With a variety of social and educational problems has pushed a writer to provide a new thinking and practical in counseling with a Sufism (mysticism) approached in counseling. In this case, the approach is to have a client through a station process (levels/maqam) into enlighten character and mind. Therefore, this article will discuss a Sufism approached (mysticism) in the process of counseling services as spiritual counseling.


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