School Counseling

To accomplish the foregoing function, the trained school counselor must be an assertive advocate creating opportunities for all students to nurture dreams of high aspirations. This paper reviews five articles relevant to a variety of areas salient for school counseling. Each article is briefly summarized and then discussed in terms of its applications to the school counseling situation.

Article 1: Predictors of Educational and Occupational Aspirations

In this study of a large national sample of students, Mau and Bikos (2000) examined for several personal/psychological, demographic (sex and race), family, and school variables as predictors of students (10th and 12th grade) educational and occupational aspirations. The student sample was drawn from the large database of the National Educational Longitudinal study sponsored by the National Center for Educational Statistics. Logistic multiple regression analyses revealed several findings. First, it was observed that both educational and occupational aspirations

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Article 3: Aggressive, Defiant Adolescents This article by Hanna, Hanna, and Keys (1999) focuses on how to establish an effective counseling relationship that will produce positive changes in teens who are aggressive and defiant at school. It is noted that the effectiveness of any given strategy is dependent upon many variables including the basic personality of the adolescent, the child's demographic background (e.g., age, gender, culture/ethnicity, etc.), and the degree of the counselor's expertise. All of the provided strategies were developed on the basis of Hanna, Hanna, and Keys' (1999) clinical experience and upon the findings of an exhaustive review of the relevant research. The authors divided their strategies into three basic categories along a continuum of the amount of skill required by the counselor for effective implementation. Some examples of recommended strategies at low, middle and high school levels are provided below: (1) Low Skill Level - Strategies provided in this category include not sitting behind a desk, offering a snack, and becoming familiar with music that adolescents like. (2) Middle Skill Level - Strategies that require at least a moderate level of counseling expertise are said to include: educa
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Approximate Word count = 2239
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)

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