Table of Contents

1. School Counseling as a Career: A New Chapter in Your Story.
2. The School Counselor as Ethical Practitioner: Responsibilities to Students.
3. The School Counselor as Ethical Practitioner: Responsibilities to Others, Self, and the Profession.
4. The ASCA National Model: Foundation and Framework for a Comprehensive School Counseling Program.
5. Direct Student Services: Providing the School Counseling Core Curriculum and Counseling.
6. Indirect Student Services: Consultation, Coordination, and Noncounseling Roles.
7. The Culturally Competent School Counselor: Working with Diversity and Special Needs.
8. School Counselor Collaboration with School Personnel.
9. School Counselor Collaboration with Parents/Guardians and the Community.
10. The Effective School Counselor: Accountability in Action.
11. The School Counselor as Advocate: Taking A Stand.
12. The School Counselor as Leader: Promoting Systemic Change.
13. The School Counselor as Responsive Leader: School Violence Prevention and Crisis Intervention.
14. Becoming a School Counselor: Your Personal and Professional Journey.

About the Author

Dr. Tammy Davis is a Professor in the Counseling program at Marymount University in Arlington, VA, teaching primarily in the school counseling program. Before coming to Marymount in 1999, Dr. Davis was an elementary and high school counselor for nine years in Manassas, Virginia. Her professional positions have included being Past President of the Virginia Association for Counselor Education & Supervision and of the Virginia School Counselor Association. She served on the Board of Directors of the American School Counselor Association (2010-2013). Dr. Davis has presented over 100 workshops locally, regionally, and nationally on a number of topics in school counseling, including developing resilience and positive thinking in students. She has been an invited keynote in several states. Her publications include books and articles in school counseling as well as book chapters on counseling suicidal children and group counseling in schools. She was named the 2007 Counselor Educator of the Year by the American School Counselor Association. She teaches courses at Marymount in both the school and community counseling graduate programs and supervises all of the Practicum experiences for the school counseling students. Dr. Davis serves as the coordinator for the Northern Virginia School Counseling Leadership Team. She resides in Manassas, VA with her husband Ken who is a principal of a 5th/6th grade intermediate school and their three Siberian Huskies.

Reviews

"I would describe this textbook as an excellent balance between contemporary School Counseling information and personal stories of life as a school counselor. "

"This text is truly refreshing and does what it promises-information and practice are integrated. The text is current and addresses contemporary school counselor issues."