Full Description
This practice-based text offers a roadmap to optimal collaboration for all school leaders - including counselors, superintendents, principals, and university faculty - to provide the best mental health outcomes for students.
Administrative Leaders and School Counselors is a timely publication that creatively and cohesively authenticates the relationship between administrative leaders and school counselors. In order to systemically promote mental health consciousness and considerations for school counselors as practitioners and in training, collaboration among school leaders is essential for comprehensive school counseling programs, practices, funding, partnerships, and services designed for students. The first to feature perspectives from a diverse set of leadership positions in schools, the book provides individuals with exposure to educational leadership models and decisions that impact the roles of school counselors.
The book will appeal to faculty who are teaching and training those who are or will ultimately be working as professional school counselors, counseling psychologists, or educational leaders such as principals, directors, department chairs, and superintendents.
Contents
Part 1: Incorporating a Foundation of Mental Health in School Counseling 1. Mental and Behavioral Health in Schools 2. School Counselors' Perspective of Mental Health in Schools 3. Promoting Positive Mental Health in Changing Times 4. Restorative Practices that Support Student Mental Health Concerns Part 2: Integrating Mental Health in the Development and Training of School Counselors 5. Leadership Models for School Counselors to Promote Mental Health 6. Training School Counselors in Graduate Programs to be Mental Health Conscious 7. Student Development and Performance in Academics, Intrapersonal, and Dispositions for School Counselors-in-Training to Address Mental Health Needs 8. Dynamic School Counselor Professional Development Focusing on Continuous Mental Health Education 9. Site Supervision and Mentorship: Practices that Influence Positive Mental Health in Schools Part 3: Examining Mental Health Expertise in the Hiring and Retention of Highly Qualified School Counselors 10. Character and Disposition as Necessary Measures of Success for School Counselors' as Mental Health Professionals 11. What Directors Need to Know about the Comprehensive School Counseling Programs that Support Student Mental Health 12. Interviewing and Placement of School Counselors to Include Mental Health Practices 13. Creating & Maintaining the Best School Counseling Team for Mental Health and Wellness Crow Part 4: Developing, Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Comprehensive School Counseling Programs Utilizing a Mental Health Perspective 14. Managing Programs that Support Mental Health 15. Mental Health Considerations for District and School Level Crisis Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention Plans 16. Data Collection and Analysis Supporting Systemic Approaches to Mental Health 17. Accountability Measures for Positive Mental Health 18. Utilizing Budgets, Grants, Donations, and Financial Audits to Support Mental Health 19. Partnerships that Streamline Mental Health Services in Schools Part 5: Professional Advocacy to Ensure Mental Health Services for all Students 20. School Counselors Advocating for Mental Health Practices 21. Administrative Leaders and School Counselors Advocating for Supporting Mental Health in Their Programs