ABSTRACT

The School Counselor’s Guide to Surviving the First Year offers a comprehensive look into the first-year school counseling experience.

This practical guide includes topics from internship to professional development from an intimate perspective within the context of real-life scenarios. Drawing from personal experiences, journal articles, textbooks, and excerpts by numerous professional school counselors, it fuses what a school counseling trainee learns in their graduate program and the field experience they get into one unique guide. Emphasizing hands-on approaches, this volume offers personal as well as professional steps toward success in the ins and outs of counseling.

This book is a valuable toolkit for the developmental journey of school counselors in-training and beginning school counselors.

part I|1 pages

Before Graduation

chapter 1|9 pages

Internship

chapter 2|10 pages

Networking

chapter 3|6 pages

Testing and Licensure Requirements

part II|1 pages

New Graduate

chapter 4|9 pages

Job Search and the Interview Process

chapter 5|9 pages

Rejected to Hired

part III|1 pages

The First Year

chapter 6|9 pages

The Illusion v. the Reality

With Guest Writer Morgan Capucini

chapter 7|10 pages

Crisis and the Resident Expert

chapter 8|9 pages

Balance, Boundaries, and Transference

part IV|1 pages

The Ins and Outs of Counseling

chapter 9|12 pages

Individual and Group

chapter 10|12 pages

Guidance Lessons or Skills Classes

chapter 11|7 pages

Family Counseling

chapter 12|12 pages

Dealing with Your Own Biases

part V|1 pages

Defining Who You Are

chapter 13|10 pages

In the School

chapter 14|10 pages

Minimizing Burnout

part VI|1 pages

Establishing Your Role and Program

chapter 15|11 pages

Applying Your Graduate Knowledge

chapter 16|11 pages

Working with Administrators

chapter 17|12 pages

Implementing the ASCA National Model

chapter 18|11 pages

Meeting the Needs of the Whole Child

part VII|1 pages

Collaboration

chapter 19|10 pages

Administrators and Teachers

chapter 20|11 pages

Other Stakeholders

part VIII|1 pages

Supervision and Mentorship

chapter 21|11 pages

Redefining Supervision as Mentorship

chapter 22|8 pages

We’re a Team

part IX|1 pages

Professional Development

chapter 23|11 pages

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