Trends in Schools

School Violence

Students need to understand their roles and how they fit into society. Interventions used concerning violence are helping the students to develop better self-esteem so that they may feel empowered to do what is right when conflict arises. Students develop a better understanding of how to respect others and how respect is earned.

At-Risk Children

Roles of the school counselor are to protect students and help them increase their resilience, create mentoring opportunities for children, involve children with special hobbies and interests, and to assist in creating positive relationships with particular adults. Intervention methods include, elementary counselors expose themselves to a great deal of information about student with attention and behavior problems. Counselors will provide guidance lessons to students. Those lessons include social and interpersonal skills for maintaining relationships in a variety of setting.

School Phobia

Many school counselors would like to help students who suffer from school phobia but are not given much opportunity to take the initiative.

Self-esteem Building

Children today suffer from low self-esteem, because of traumatic experiences such as neglect, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Interventions include drama and role-play, lecturing and discussing, training for teachers, counselors, and parents.

Rational Thinking

Students have an increase of rational thinking after being exposed to REE guidance lessons. The students establish a link between thought and feelings. Most students believe that situations and events cause emotional reactions. Therefore the students learn that events do not cause emotions, but they cause their own emotions.

Group Counseling for behavioral problems

Children understand that the interpersonal problems they face are within their control and to teach them how to manage or even avoid events and situations that lead to those problems. The students set goals and begin to identify social problems. They learn to predict consequences and develop solutions. It is based solely on self-monitoring and self-evaluation.