Chapter 10 : Student Counseling Management

Each public school are provided with a student's counselling center. Working there will be licensed counselors that are hired by the government. The counseling center provides counseling sessions either group or individual, career test, and peers support.

There are 5 main phases of a counseling process :

Phase 1 
This phase is also known as realization. Realization must be accepted by the school staffs and also the counseling teachers as a problem or a case arise. The first line of defense when it comes to student's problems should always be their class teachers as they are the ones who understands their students better

Phase 2 
All teachers attending the school needs to be trained on guidance counseling courses to help and support a students situation. This way, the burden is distributed and not dependent solely on the licensed counselors as there are only limited number of counselors. Courses taken should include :
- Personality Development Skills
- Listening and Understanding Skills
- Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Skills
- Skills in Identifying Signs
- Theory and Techniques is Counseling


Phase 3
The teachers who have completed the courses will then put them into use. There are 3 types of student counseling sessions that can be done
i) To students who voluntary sign up for counseling
ii) Students who are on an observation period
iii) Identified students that needs counseling

Phase 4
The counseling session begins with these steps :
i) Building a rapport between the student/students and the counselor/teacher
ii) Explore or unpack the purposes of them getting help
iii) Rephrasing and building goals throughout the session on how to get better
iv) Setting up alternatives and an action plan
v) Putting the plan into action and observe
vi) If the plan succeeds, the relationship between the counselor and students end. If not, or the student falls into relapse, then the steps are repeated

Reasons For Counseling :

1- Family Problems

2- Financial Problems

3- Peer Pressure

4- Personal Factors

5- Career

6- Academic Performance

7- University Placement

These are the common factors that affects a student to be stressed and burden. Hence, needing counseling sessions. 

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