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Responsive Services
Responsive services are short-term counseling interventions to resolve immediate conflicts/problems, respond to crisis events, and intervene in school specific situations that disrupt learning.
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I work in partnership with the administrators, teachers, school and area mental health professionals to provide services via a delivery system that benefits the most students while maximizing counselors’ time.
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Responsive Services Include:
CONSULTATION
Counselors consult and work collaboratively with teachers, paras, school psychologists, parents, teachers and community-based mental health professionals to develop a broad base of support for students School counselors serve as student advocates.
COUNSELING
Counseling students with identified needs/concerns to clarify needs and provide immediate, short-term interventions. Personal counseling assists students with school success. Counseling on a small group or individual basis may be provided. Personal counseling assists students in identifying problems, causes, alternatives, and possible consequences so that appropriate action can be taken. Such counseling is normally short-term in nature. School counselors do not provide therapy. When necessary, appropriate referral sources are used. The school counselor acts in accordance with all federal, state and local laws and policies with respect to confidentiality, suspected cases of abuse, and threats of harm or violence.
PREVENTIVE
INTERVENTION
Ongoing interventions to reduce the need for crisis management and remediation. Intervention goals include the development of attitudes, knowledge and skills that build students’ self-worth, resiliency, optimism, and future orientation. Community service learning projects and peer support groups are examples of such interventions.
OUTSIDE
REFFERRALS
School counselors can provide short-term individual counseling for students, but when more intervention is required, they can coordinate referrals to community agencies. Counselors refer students and their parents/guardians to community agencies to deal with those long-term situations which may include suicide, violence, emotional abuse, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and divorce. To assure support, counselors need to maintain ongoing communication with involved agencies and referred students. Referral sources may include mental health agencies, vocational rehabilitation, social services, employment and training programs, and juvenile justice services.