Preventing School Violence: Training for School Counselors (From Violence in American Schools: A Practical Guide for Counselors, P 201-216, 2000, Daya Singh Sandhu and Cheryl Blalock Aspy, eds. -- See NCJ-185486)

• NCJ Number: 185498
• Author(s): Sue A. Stickel; Irene Mass Ametrano; Yvonne L. Callaway
• Date Published: 2000
• Length: 16 pages
• Sale Source: American Counseling Assoc
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Collected Work
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

School counselors need to conceptualize their roles in relation to school violence and to use their counseling, consulting, and organizing skills in violence prevention and intervention.

Abstract

School counselors represent the largest single group of mental health professionals working in schools. As such, they must be prepared to provide a range of services that address school violence. When counselors explore how violence is defined in society, they can more readily identify how it is expressed in the school environment. School counseling, however, has historically lacked a consistent organizational pattern that defines the role of counselors and what services they should offer. Schools are in an excellent position to conceptualize the delivery of counseling services in terms of three prevention levels--primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Counseling skills appropriate to these prevention levels are identified, with the goal of helping school counselors build the social and cultural foundations that facilitate equity and quality in school violence prevention and intervention programs and recognize and understand cultural paradigms and environmental factors that affect aggression and violence in schools. 29 references and 1 table