The primary objective of the comprehensive school counseling program is to assist all students in acquiring the greatest benefit from their own unique educational experiences. Each child has inherent worth and should be helped to develop his/her own potential.
The primary emphasis of the counseling program centers on developmental activities geared and structured for all students. The program will be preventative in nature. Appropriate services will also be provided to help students overcome problems that impede the educational process.
The counseling program will focus on these main concepts: self-awareness, relationships, interpersonal safety, chemical use and/or abuse, and decision making.
The counselor will work with individuals, small groups, teachers, and parents in dealing with issues that concern the welfare of the child and have not been addressed through preventative activities.
The counselor is not a disciplinarian, although the counselor should be a consultant on disciplinary cases trying to seek causes for behavior and to find ways to promote the appropriate behavior.
The counselor is not a school based therapist. The counselor works with all children and is concerned with their developmental needs. The counselor helps to identify students with exceptional needs and seeks, with parent approval, to initiate referral.