Guidance Services

Individual Counseling - Referrals result from the faculty, students or parents arising from a need or a concern. Issues include achievement, changing families, divorce, substance abuse, peer pressure, social rejection, self-esteem, illness, harassment, and dating issues. We often use strategies that include conflict resolution, facilitation, problem solving, and decision-making models.

Group Counseling - This consists of special needs groups such as anger management, stress management, peer relations, motivation, family changes, and cultural issues.

Crisis Counseling - Individual or group counseling as determined by the emergency or by parent contact.

Group Guidance - Topics include self-esteem, gifted issues, conflict resolution, career information, and mental health issues.

Ways Guidance Counselors can be helpful to Parents

Parent Counselor Conferences
Arranging parent-team conferences
Facilitationg the acquistion of periodic progress reports
Information Gathering
Standardized test interpretation
Referral source for parents (tutors, therapists, specialists)
Notification of the school promotion policy as it relates to student retention
Gathering data in order to assist with the application process for special programs or schools
Provide a parent orientation as students transition into middle school and adolescence
Arrange for homebound instruction for students unable to attend due to illness
Organize the course selection process for each grade level
Facilitationg the acquistion of periodic progress reports
Consultation

Academic Planning and Course Selection

Counselors at GMS engage in the following activities to ensure that students are pursuing appropriate courses of study:

Meet with all grade level staff and distribute course selection materials.
Prepare course recommendations for parent verification.
Set up parent university meetings to explain course options and expectations.
Review data for new students and develop schedules.
Revise schedules as needed.
Organize course selection information.

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