ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the basic principles that facilitate the development of research-identified student academic strengths and the interventions that school counselors can use to enhance those strengths. It reviews the type of environments that have been documented to enhance student academic success. The chapter highlights some of the key self-regulatory processes that research has shown to be associated with academic achievement. It considers what counselors and others can do to enhance students’ use of these strategies and examines effective learning and study strategies, motivation, goal orientation, self-efficacy, and attributions. School counselors have always had an ancillary role in the academic mission of schools and in student academic development. School counseling is a profession that focuses on the relations and interactions between students and their school environment with the expressed purpose of reducing the effect of environmental and institutional barriers that impede student academic success.
