What is Your School's Mental Health Profile?

Abstract

Understanding the composite mental health of a school's student body is essential in assisting school administrators in their efforts to personalize the school environment and better meet student needs. The mental health profile is a simple tracking mechanism designed to help administrators gather baseline data about the critical mental health challenges facing students and the school personnel who most often interact with them.

The Assessment of School Counseling Competencies as a Tool to Support School Counseling Students, Supervisors, and Training Programs

“…Despite the vital role that school counseling site supervisors play in trainees’ development during their practicum and internship experiences, many school counselors are unprepared to engage in effective clinical supervision. The ASCA (2016) ethical standard D.b states that school counseling site supervisors “have the education and training to provide clinical supervision.” Nevertheless, many site supervisors are inadequately prepared to supervise school counseling trainees due to insufficient training and lack of supervision experience (Brott et al, 2016; Murphy & Kaffenberger, 2007; Roberts & Morotti, 2001; Studer, 2005). DeKruyf and Pehrsson (2011) found that 54% of school counseling site supervisors reported little or no counseling supervision training.…”