ABSTRACT
In many ways, the school counselor, who becomes the administrator of the school guidance or school counseling program in a school district or a school building, is a prototypical example of the situations discussed in this book. Whether known as the Head or Lead Counselor, the Director of Guidance, the Director of School Counseling, or by another term, the administrator of the school counseling program is typically a middle manager representing and providing leadership and management to the other school counselors in the school district or school building. Typically, however, the administrator of the school counseling program has limited autonomy because other institutional-level administrators (e.g., the principal of the building, the assistant superintendent of pupil personnel services, under which school counseling is frequently subsumed) also have general oversight or authority for the school counseling or guidance program. This institutional-level administrator may also hold the budget for the counseling program or be expected to approve all of the program expenditures.
