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WorksheetsFCTE School Counselor- Interventions, Collaboration, Culture
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 31mins
What issues might a primary prevention group address for adolescent girls?
Grief and loss
Aggression
Self esteem
Abuse
Rather than requiring students who disobey the rules on fighting to serve a silent detention, you suggest conducting a problem-centered, structured intervention group. What issues should you focus on during this group?
Self-actualization
Aggressive behaviors
Safety
Physiological issues
Teachers need basic safety training in school violence to learn how to keep themselves and students safe. In addition to this basic safety training, what other issues should be discussed to assist teachers in understanding problems in their schools?
Student dynamics
Basic psychology of the student involved in violence
Nonviolent reactions to student behavior
All of the above
In group interventions, there are typically 3 stages involved in the group dynamics: group formation, group awareness, and group action. What is the focus of the Group Formation stage?
To facilitate cooperation
To introduce all participants
To find out why everyone is in the group
To ask what group members hope to gain from the group
What is the main premise behind Solution-Focused Brief Counseling?
Serious underlying psychological problems must be addressed before counseling can take place.
Individuals have the ability to solve their own problems with the assistance of a counselor.
Individuals cannot understand their issues and need a counselor to help them.
This counseling technique is effective after only three sessions.
Solution-Focused Brief Counseling consists of what six steps?
Define problem, determine goals, develop intervention, assign strategic tasks, emphasize positive behavior, terminate counseling.
Define problem, determine goals, develop intervention, revisit goals, develop a second intervention, terminate counseling.
Conduct psychoanalysis, determine underlying problem, develop group intervention plan, reinforce behavior, assign strategic task, terminate counseling.
Identify prevention steps, define problem, determine goals, develop intervention, assign strategic task, terminate counseling.
When developing an intervention, a counselor should state the problem in a positive way. What is this known as?
Positive problem statements
Utilization
Reframing
Rephrasing
Some counselors give students assignments related to the problems and goals that have been identified in counseling sessions to complete in between sessions. What is this kind of an assignment called?
Homework
Counselor tasking
Strategic task
Goal-oriented task
A student who usually has straight A's comes into your office with a referral from her English teacher. Her grades have been slipping lately and she states she has been "stressed out", but nothing serious is going on.
What issues might you want to ask about in order to determine the reason for her lower grades?
Self-esteem issues
Problems with a friend/boyfriend
Difficulty level of her classes
Mental health history
There are a number of risk factors affecting children and adolescents. Which is not considered a risk factor?
Poverty
Uneducated parents
Single-parent family
One parent with a high school diploma and one with a bachelor's degree.
A known bully in the school is referred to your office. In addition to providing intervention for his violent behavior, what common issue or risk factor should you take into consideration?
Pathology
Potential to drop out of school
Future self-esteem issues
Poor conflict management skills
Young girls who experience abuse in the home or in a relationship have increased risk factors including:
Drug abuse
Teen pregancy
Poor grades
All of the above
As a high school counselor, you observe that the numbers of pregnant teens on campus have been increasing. What steps can you put into place to address this issue?
Continue to focus on student academics.
Allow pregnant students to have a lighter course load in order to focus on their health and pregnancy.
Develop prevention and intervention programs to address this issue.
Counsel students on the difficulties of having a child at this age and assist with federal aid paperwork.
A recent transfer student came from an inner city school to your rural school. She is having difficulty to the area and the school. As the counselor, what steps can you take to ease this student's transition?
Announce that there is a new student and ask volunteers to show her around the school.
Create a support team with the help of other students, teachers, and the new student's parents.
Provide Solution-Focused Brief Counseling to find out the underlying problem.
Provide information about making friends and offer this formation to the student and her parents.
A local plant recently closed down, causing hundreds of adults in your community to lose their jobs. How ight this affect the school district's community?
Schools many experience a drop in attendance and achievement.
Students will be able to spend more time with their parents and, as a result, do better in school.
The number of students in schools will decrease as families move to find work.
There may be an increase in participation in the school's on-the-job training program, as students need to work to help the family.
The school you work in has a high rate of parent participation. You would like to use this information to further increase the success of your students. What can a counselor do to make sure parents have the opportunity to continue supporting the school?
Send notes home thanking them for their continued support.
Develop programs that encourage parent participation.
Offer parent education programs addressing the needs of their children in terms of success in the future.
Provide students with mentoring programs so that they can gain the support of adults in the business community.
One major risk factor for students is having parents with little/no education or parents who do not speak English as a first language. As a counselor, how could you address this issue?
Offer educational opportunities for parents, such as reading and writing classes.
Suggest to parents that they enroll in college and earn degrees.
Develop educational programs that teach students to be independent of their families.
Provide counseling services to all students who have uneducated parents.
Studies have suggested that training in social skills benefits gifted and special needs students. What specific factor does such training address?
Self-esteem
Sociability
Attendance rates
Family risk factors
Collaboration with other teachers is a good way to incorporate positive behaviors and communication throughout the school. How can a teacher advisor program assist in this collaboration?
Provides all-around support to the students.
Makes the teacher feel important and more willing to work with the counselor.
Provides ore watchful eyes for bad behavior.
Gives students more opportunities to get help with their school work.
The DIRECT technique is a consulting method used in many school districts. What does DIRECT stand for?
District Initiative Regarding Educational Counseling Techniques
Dynamic Introspective Reasoning for Educational Counseling Theory
Direct Individual Response Educational Consulting Technique
Direct Individual Reaction to Educational Counseling Theories
It comes to your attention that some of the teachers in your school are treating students in drug intervention programs differently. As the school counselor, what should you to do stop this behavior?
Conduct training for teachers on discrimination and diversity in the schools.
Report these teachers to the proper superiors
Nothing, your job is to only deal with the students.
Speak to each teacher individually about the effects of their negativity.
Even after restructuring prevention and intervention programs, you feel that the results could be better. What further action could you take to increase program effectiveness?
Change participation in the prevention programs from voluntary to mandatory.
Increase the number of programs available.
Bring in a consultant to review programs and brainstorm new ideas.
Ask administration to increase funding for programs.
What is the best strategy for choosing teacher advisors for students?
Divide the students alphabetically by last name.
Obtain a list of students each teacher would like to advise.
Obtain a list of preferred teacher advisors from the students.
Obtain a list of preferred teacher advisors from the parents.
You have implemented a new teacher-advising program for students in the school what do the teachers need to know about their new role?
They should both provide support and serve as advocates for their students.
They need to meet with the students once a year.
They should provide tutoring services to the students when necessary.
They will be required to report all interactions with the students on a monthly basis.
What is one strategy a counselor can use to increase job experience and skills that would require community collaboration?
Creating an on-the-job training program
Finding part time jobs for students
Offering ore career-based or skill-improvement courses, such as auto shop and computer applications
Offering programs that focus on resume writing and interviewing skills
Counselors are often responsible for initiating a parent conference by making a phone call or sending a letter home. What should a counselor do in order to avoid an automatic negative reaction from the parents?
State all the problems their child is having
Speak with a level of equality and openness
State that things at home must change
Suggest that their child seeks additional help
Why should cultural identity be integrated into early interventions for developmental issues?
Culture will affect how children and parents view the learning environment and respond to various programs or interventions.
Interventions should focus on a student's culture, as the child may not understand concepts that are otherwise unrelated.
Students within the same area should learn the same information, and culture should not be taken into consideration.
Each group deals with issues differently; therefore may be confusion between the student and the counselor if these issues are considered when developing the intervention.
A school counselor begins at a new school and notices that there are few cultural diversity programs available. What might she do to increase cultural expression in the school?
Ask teachers to provide information on the ethnic demographics of their classes.
Encourage families to discuss cultural diversity at home.
Coordinate a field trip to a more diverse school.
Develop programs and events that celebrate and educate students about cultural diversity.
A counselor initiating a school-family curriculum program will probably structure the program in what way?
Take home activities for parents and students
Group discussions
Surveys for parents
Counseling sessions for those in need of cultural diversity education
A counselor begins seeing a student who has issues with low self-esteem. This student is of Chinese decent but was adopted by an African American family as a baby. What responsibility does the counselor have toward the student in regards to their culture?
Provide the student with information on her Chinese heritage and encourage her to embrace it.
Suggest she join the Chinese American Club at school.
Question her feelings of being of Chinese descent but being raised in an African American home.
Respect the student's cultural identity as it is and assist her with the problems she brought to the attention of the counselor.
