Full Description
School Counselling in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide is a collaborative text that explores the evolving and multi-faceted role of school counsellors at the intersection of education, mental health, and advocacy. Unlike general counselling resources, this book focuses on the specific challenges and responsibilities of school counsellors within Canadian contexts. School counsellors are not only advocates, confidants, and guides—they are also clinicians, educators, collaborators, and leaders who are instrumental in creating supportive and inclusive educational and counselling environments that promote student wellbeing and success.
This book blends scholarly research, lived experience, and practitioner wisdom to examine the evolving profession, ethical considerations, and the diverse and complex realities of school counselling across Canada. Using a collaborative co-author model, featuring school counsellors, practitioners, educators, and members of the Indigenous community, from various provinces, the chapters unpack specialized school counselling knowledge that will serve both future practitioners and their students in reaching their full potential. Designed for current and future school counsellors, as well as educators, administrators, and the education community as a whole, this guide offers the knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of school counselling and better support student wellbeing, equity, and meaningful change.
It's comprehensive, collaborative approach to school counselling makes this resource suitable for Education and School Counselling programs at Canadian Universities.
Contents
Territorial Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Foreword by John-Tyler Binfet, PhD
Part I: The Role of School Counselling & What It Entails (Holistically)
Chapter 1. Introduction to the Book
Chapter 2. Narratives - Role of School Counsellor / The Multiple Hats of a School Counsellor
Chapter 3. School Counselling Ethics - It's Complicated
Chapter 4. Comprehensive School Counselling
Chapter 5. Defining Diversity, Inclusion, and Advocacy from Non-Dominant Perspectives
Chapter 6. Bridging the Multiple Responsibilities of School Counselling: Ethics, Wellbeing, and Self-Care
Chapter 7. Advocacy from the Lens of a School Counsellor
Part II: Praxis (Scholarship and Practice)
Chapter 8. Considering Neuroception in Childhood Development
Chapter 9. Inclusive Support: Suggestions for Group Counselling in Educational Settings
Chapter 10. Navigating Parenting in Canada: A Case Study of Supporting Immigrant Families and Implications for School Counselling
Chapter 11. Career Counselling in Canadian Contexts: Navigating the Pathways to Graduation
Chapter 12. Setting Goals, Articulating a Vision, Setting a Path, and Inviting Dreams
Chapter 13. The School Counsellor as Capacity Builder
Chapter 14. Mental Health and Comprehensive Assessment Tools
Part III: Steering the Course of the Scholar-Practitioner-Advocate Role
Chapter 15. The Advocate-Practitioner-Counsellor-Educator Role
Chapter 16. Inspire and Guide: School Counsellors and the Vision of Trauma-Informed Education
Chapter 17. Embedding Wellbeing and Self-Care Practices in Personal, Professional, and Organizational Domains
Chapter 18. Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives
Chapter 19. Upending the Binary: Students, Counsellors, and the Mental Health Crisis in Schools
Chapter 20. A Culturally Responsive and Critically Reflective School Counselling Professional Identity
Chapter 21. Exploring Non-Western Traditional Perspectives of Learning and Practicing Wellbeing
Part IV: Finding Your Own Path
Chapter 22. Coming Full Circle: Triumph over Trauma - Embracing the Resistance of our Ancestors and Restoring Balance
Chapter 23. A New Landscape: The Transformative Power of Integrating the Creative Process in School Counselling
Chapter 24. Gaining Confidence: Integrating One's Worldview, Counselling Theory, and Practice for School Counselling
Chapter 25. Intercultural School Counselling: Creating a Sense of Welcome and Safety
Chapter 26. Concluding Thoughts
Glossary
Index
References
Editor Biographies
Contributor Biographies
