HOW STUDENTS PERCEIVE the counselor's role

The Counselor's Role

“…As in the "student choice study," the situations were grouped into three areas: (1) educational planning, (2) vocational planning, and (3) personal-emotional. The responses were segregated into three categories according to the choice made by the respondee: (1) counselor, (2) other school personnel, and (3) non-school people. School personnel filling out the questionnaires were informed that members of a class in Educational Psychology :it Syracuse University werc interested in determining who school personnel felt could be of most assistance to students in their particular schools involved in situations described in the questionnaire.…”

A mental health study in college preparatory schools: Proposed plan

“…The presence of a school counselling service alone is not enough to answer the present needs of students. Grant (1954) has shown that a counselling service in a junior and senior high school was regarded by only 4% of the students questioned as potentially helpful in solving their personal and emotional problems. However, when a psychiatrist was introduced into a guidance program, Hey1 (1958) states that after initial reluctance, 12% of the student body availed themselves of his services.…”

Expectations and Perceptions of the Role of the Guidance Counselor as Described by Students and Parents

“…guidance personnel have been described as poorly prepared to do personal and emotional counseling in their schools (Grant 1954;Kriedberg 1972). Generally there seemed to be disagreements between groups regarding the counselor actually teaching classes at least part of the day (Dunlop 1965;Wills 1973).…”