Student Counselling

Counselling

Counselors monitor students’ development and according to their needs they give students necessary support such as helping them to understand themselves and their needs, to solve their problems, to make realistic decisions, to improve their abilities and skills, and to adjust themselves and their environment in a School.

Academic Guidance

In helping students understand their learning needs and blocks, such as equipping them with study skills, doing semi-formal assessments for Learning Disabilities and Difficulties. Academic guidance is often necessary for children that are unable to get it at home, or have a paucity of resources to equip them with specific knowledge otherwise.

Career and Vocational Guidance

While career guidance exists as a field in itself, school counselors are generally required to keep abreast with career options as well as things such as entrance examinations, college requirements etc. More pertinent in School counselors can help by providing information on the various career and vocational options available. School counselors can guide the students in choosing the right career based on suitable aptitude tests.

Issues with Peers

Issues such as bullying, clique formation, estrangement and infighting, are all issues that we worked with in our fieldwork setting. Within this, we saw how the teachers, administration and parents interacted to either mediate or exacerbate the situation as well as how it was developmentally crucial to resolve these issues.

Psychosocial Problems

A school counsellor helps in early identification of problem behaviours and takes suitable steps to prevent the onset of psychosocial problems. In case of psychosocial problems detected after their onset, the school counsellor works towards finding suitable solutions, or due to the time constraints in school, looks at referring the child to a more suitable setting if the child’s home environment allows for it.

Working with Parents

To enable holistic support and to ensure that the child’s home environment is secure and nurturing for her, as well as to keep the parents in the loop about the work done in counselling, and how to ensure that the results are maintained at home.

Working with Teachers

Teacher meetings are extremely crucial in order to ensure two basic things

to keep the teacher in the loop about the work being done, and how to modify his/her behaviour accordingly, as well as for inputs about the conditions of the classroom

help the teacher manage his own workload, by providing them with skills such as coping skills or problem solving strategies or emotional unburdening.