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What is school guidance counselling?

A school guidance counselling is a global concept which is focused on acting in elementary, middle, and high schools; and providing academic, career, college access, and personal/social competencies to students.

 Are guidance and counselling synonyms?

Counsellors work with teachers, administrators, and families in coordinated efforts to help to resolve specific student problems.

Guidance focuses on the complete development of individual students through a series of services designed to maximize school learning, stimulate career development, and respond to the personal and social concerns that inhibit individual growth.

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School Guidance and Couselling is the way of helping students of all ages to develop correctly their skills. They also help them with personal and academical problems.

What are its functions and its main areas?

Functions:

School counselors are employed in elementary, middle, and high schools, and in district supervisory settings and in counselor education faculty positions and post-secondary settings doing academic, career, college readiness, and personal/social counseling, consultation, and program coordination. Their work includes a focus on developmental stages of student growth, including the needs, tasks, and student interests related to those stages

Areas of counsellor training include:

School Counselling

• Counselling theory, issues and practice
• Counselling in schools

Guidance and Counselling in the Schools

• Early years counselling
• Middle and senior years counselling
• Group guidance and counselling
• Psychology of human relationships
• Family life education
• Career information
• Career development theories
• Ethics in counselling
• Assessment for counsellors
• Intercultural counselling
• Current issues in counselling

Counselling Practicum

• Counselling skills
• Field placement in counselling

Counselling Electives

• Cross-cultural education
• Children's play
• Observing child behaviour
• Theory and practice of standardized tests
• Educational research methods
• Education of exceptional children
• Education of children with behaviour disorders

Who receives the school guidance and counselling services?

Support the children and the teachers in schools.

What services are provided in the school guidance and counselling programmes?

School Guidance Counselors have many duties, some of which are specific to the age of their students. What all of them have in common is:

1.Counselling

Counselling assistance supports and facilitates all students in developing and managing their individual personal/social, educational, and career goals and plans. The activities in this component include referrals, peer helping programs and individual, small group, crisis, and career counselling.

2. Prevention

A comprehensive guidance and counselling program includes early intervention and responding to students who are experiencing immediate on-going problems, concerns, or crises which interfere with their learning. This component includes activities such as providing information, individual and small group counselling and guidance, consulting with staff and parents, and referral to other specialists or services. Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention plans and programs individual assessments, co-ordinated student support team activities, student advocacy, and transitional planning are also included in prevention work.

3. Developmental Guidance Education

Developmental guidance education programming focuses on competencies which all students should develop in order to achieve personal success and fulfillment, and to make a contribution to society. The content of developmental guidance programming includes expected student learning outcomes in three areas: personal/social development, educational development, and career development. This content is normally delivered through classroom teaching/learning units, group guidance methods, courses for credit (e.g., School-initiated Courses and Student-initiated Projects), and school-wide programs and projects.


Additionally, the activities in this component include integrated, developmental student learning outcomes, classroom-based guidance instruction and assessment, professional resources, post-secondary education and career resource materials and programs.


In Manitoba, at the present time, curriculum connections between compulsory curricula (kindergarten to grade 12) and the guidance and counselling program are located at Manitoba Sourcebook Curriculum Connections.Examples of activities used to develop guidance-related competencies also include whole-school programs such as participation in the Career Symposia, Canada Career Week, Manitoba Addictions Awareness Week, mentorships programs, peer helper programs, and conflict mediator programs.

4. Consultation, Planning and Coordination

This component involves the administrative and management activities necessary to support the guidance and counselling program, as well as activities or services provided by school counsellors to support other guidance and educational programs of the school. This component includes consultation and collaboration with parents and community agencies and other support services, staff development, research, budgeting, community relations, and program evaluation.


Also included are activities related to program management and operations, data-informed decision-making, advocacy for guidance-related classroom-based learning outcomes, needs assessments, time allotments and caseload management, calendar of activities and school-based planning.

Who provides these services?

It is the responsibility of a School Guidance Counselor to help students develop goals academically and evaluate strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes. School counselors at all levels also help students deal with personal, social and behavioral issues

When are the school guidance counselling services provided?

Along the academic process: In Primary, in high school…

In primary they teach selfconfidence and kindness. Guide them everyday and provide support academiscally, socially, personally and current development.

In high school they are the one who talk to you when you want to know about careers and apply to colleges.

At University, most personal, relationship or identity problems can be helped through counselling. This includes anxiety, stress and depression, family and/or relationship difficulties, sexual problems and identity issues. Counselling can also help with other issues such as: adjusting to a new culture, dealing with dilemmas, making difficult decisions or choices, as well as more specific problems such as bereavement and difficulties affecting studies, including bullying and harassment.

Counselling services for adults who are seeking information, advice, guidance and therapy in regards to experiences which have adversely affected their personal functioning and general health, may be available through your local Community Health Centre or Hospital.

Professional Social Workers, based at your local Community Health Centre, are the main providers of the counselling services for adults whose social functioning and emotional health has been compromised by significant troubling life experiences, which may have also resulted in changed social and personal circumstances, including relationship breakdown, interpersonal abuse and violence, family conflict, illness, chronic disease, disability, traumatic and criminal incidents, accidents, injuries, unemployment and deaths.

Where are they provided?

In schools, in classes, in small groups or individually

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