The counseling program is part of the comprehensive education provided to all students and focuses on teaching positive approaches toward school and learning and the knowledge and skills for life and employment. It includes:
- Academic counseling, which helps students and their parents learn about required curriculum and testing and choose appropriate courses leading to graduation and a transition to college, career, and other educational opportunities.
- Career counseling, which helps students acquire information and skills in order to plan for work, jobs, apprenticeships, postsecondary education, and career opportunities.
The counseling program helps students develop an understanding of themselves and of the rights and needs of others; learn to resolve conflicts; and set individual goals reflecting their interests, abilities, and aptitudes. Personal-social counseling may be provided in groups (e.g., all fifth graders) in which general issues of social development are addressed (e.g., peer relationships) or in structured individual or small group multisession counseling that focuses on the specific concerns of the participant(s) (e.g., social skills, grief, or anger management).
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