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McCarthy, Christopher; Kerne, Valerie Van Horn; Calfa, Nicolina A.; Lambert, Richard G.; Guzman, Michele – Professional School Counseling, 2010
The study in this article examined the relationship of school counselors' reports of demands and resources in their work environment to perceived stress, biographic factors, and caseload characteristics. Participants were 227 school counselors in Texas. Paperwork requirements and size of caseload were rated the most demanding aspects of their job,…
Descriptors: Work Environment, School Counselors, Anxiety, Disabilities
ACT, Inc., 2008
Students should start career planning as early as middle school by learning about their interests and their academic strengths and weaknesses as they begin to consider postsecondary and career options. This issue brief presents the results of a study that provides a financial rationale in finding that those students who engage in such long-term…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Career Planning, Middle Schools, High School Graduates
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Tassell, Janet; Stobaugh, Rebecca; Sheffield, Linda – Parenting for High Potential, 2011
Middle grades are a critical time for capturing the interest and imagination and developing the potential of mathematically promising students. This is a time for students to make sense of mathematics, build a solid foundation and enthusiasm, and set the course for the highest levels of mathematics in the future. This is a time to explore their…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Activities
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Granados, Stephanie; Winslade, John; De Witt, Megan; Hedtke, Lorraine – Journal of School Counseling, 2009
Focusing on "re-membering" practices is new to grief counseling. Traditional approaches to grief counseling are guided by the concepts of stages or tasks, usually to move the person toward accepting the reality of loss and to "say goodbye" to their deceased loved one. This alternative approach to grief counseling, driven by…
Descriptors: Grief, Memory, Adolescents, Coping
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Shi, Qi; Steen, Sam – Journal of School Counseling, 2010
A group counseling intervention with beginning-level ESL students in middle school is presented. Findings from the pre- and post-group evaluations showed statistically significant improvement in students' reading and writing skills and appropriate classroom behaviors. Limitations of the research design are discussed and implications for school…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Group Counseling, Literacy, School Counselors
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Young, Anita; Hardy, Valerie; Hamilton, Christina; Biernesser, Kristen; Sun, Li-Lin; Niebergall, Susan – Professional School Counseling, 2009
This article describes a middle school counseling department's journey and commitment to use data to seek more effective and efficient ways to provide comprehensive school counseling services to its diverse student population. Specifically, the study details the process used to design focused accountability questions that measured the…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Intervention, Bullying, School Counseling
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Dahir, Carol A.; Burnham, Joy J.; Stone, Carolyn B.; Cobb, Nicole – NASSP Bulletin, 2010
School principals and school counselors have the ability to forge a unique collaborative relationship to improve student achievement. Historically, school counselors have altered the primary focus of their work as deemed by the perspective of their principals. With an emphasis on improving student success in school, this study revealed the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Counselors, Principals, Counselor Role
Capuzzi, David – American Counseling Association, 2009
In this book, David Capuzzi, a renowned expert on suicide, encourages suicide prevention in schools through the use of a clear and effective crisis management plan designed to identify and serve at-risk youth. His concise, step-by-step framework provides essential information for school counselors, administrators, and faculty on suicide…
Descriptors: Suicide, Prevention, Crisis Management, High Schools
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Moyer, Michael; Sullivan, Jeremy – Professional School Counseling, 2008
A total of 204 middle and high school counselors from across the United States responded to a survey in which they were asked to determine whether they view specific adolescent risk-taking behaviors of varying intensity, frequency, and duration as warranting parental notification. Results suggest that counselors' perceptions that it is ethical to…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Counselor Role, Ethics, Safety
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Dixon, Andrea L.; Tucker, Catherine – Professional School Counseling, 2008
Mattering to others involves individuals' perceptions that they are important and are valued by other people in interpersonal relationships and within systems. Mattering is a foundational concept that can inform the implementation of comprehensive, K-12 Strengths-Based School Counseling (SBSC; Galassi & Akos, 2007) programs and can allow…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Motivation, School Counseling
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Caton, Mary; Field, Julaine E.; Kolbert, Jered B. – Journal of School Counseling, 2010
This study seeks to understand the effectiveness of a five-day residential leadership camp on the body image, assertiveness skills, attitudes towards gender equality, conflict resolution skills of early adolescent girl participants. To investigate the significance of the intervention, camp participants were asked to complete several instruments…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Self Concept, Conflict, Early Adolescents
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Hall, Kimberly R.; Rushing, Jeri L.; Owens, Rachel B. – Journal of School Counseling, 2009
Problem-focused interventions are considered to be one of the most effective group counseling strategies with adolescents. This article describes a problem-focused group counseling model, Solving Problems Together (SPT), with a small group of adolescent African American boys struggling with anger management. Adapted from the teaching philosophy of…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Violence, Group Counseling, Psychological Patterns
Woody, Connie – 2001
Career exploration continues to be the focus of the middle school program in career development and is part of North Carolina's Standard Course of Study. The national experience suggests that the sequential, comprehensive delivery of career development competencies can be easily and effectively accomplished through counselor-teacher collaboration.…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Cooperation, Integrated Curriculum
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Axtell, Philip K.; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry Mee; Poncy, Brian – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
To investigate the influence of an innovative math fluency intervention, 36 middle-school students were randomly assigned to either an experimental (the Detect, Practice, Repair [DPR]) or control condition (reading intervention). After covarying pretest scores, the DPR treatment produced a significantly higher (p = 0.016) adjusted mean (M) math…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Psychologists, School Psychologists
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Falco, Lia D.; Crethar, Hugh; Bauman, Sheri – Professional School Counseling, 2008
This article presents findings from a pilot study that examined the effect of a school counselor-led intervention, using the "Skill-Builders" curriculum, on middle-school students' attitudes toward mathematics learning. Results from the current study demonstrated that students who received the Skill-Builders curriculum had significantly…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Student Attitudes, Scores, School Counselors
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