Counseling Services

The Comprehensive School Counselor Program curriculum framework is organized around three strands, Social and Emotional Development, Academic Development and Career Development.

Individual Planning is a program component of the Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program (MSCP) that assists all students with educational/career planning, educational transitioning, and self-appraisal for decision making. Individual Planning is vital to every student's college and career readiness development grades K-12.

The school counselors should be available and responsive to special or unexpected needs of students and parents/guardians. Thus, the purpose of the Responsive Services Component is to work with students whose personal circumstances, concerns or problems have the potential to interfere with healthy social/emotional, academic, and career development. Issues that students may face include academic challenges, educational and career decision making, family loss, relationships, school attendance, stress, substance abuse, physical abuse and neglect, and suicide. As a result, there is continuing need for individual counseling, small group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral. The Responsive Services component also supports the activities in the School Counseling Curriculum and Individual Student Planning components.

As students are supported in overcoming barriers to their social/emotional, academic, and career development, parent/guardian involvement is essential.  This may come in the form of referring their children for assistance, working with school counselors to identify issues of concern, giving permission for needed services, and providing help in resolving issues.

Responsive services are implemented through the following: individual counseling, small group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral.

The Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program System Support component contains the management activities and services required to effectively support a district's comprehensive school counseling program.

The system support component is implemented through activities such as:

• Program management
• Evaluation
• Program evaluation
• Personnel evaluation
• Results of evaluation
• Professional development
• Staff and community relations
• Consultation and collaboration
• Committee participation
• Community outreach
• Program advocacy
• School support

Students receive guidance through:

• Individual and Group Counseling
• Academic Support
• Career Exploration
• Transition

Counseling topics might include:

• Divorce
• Loss
• Truancy
• Stress
• Academic Support
• Drug Abuse
• Coping
• Abuse
• Depression
• Family Issues
• Suicide Prevention
• Relationships

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Emotional Regulation Presentations (kdg-12th gr) ~ BHR provides Emotional Regulation presentations to help students identify the signs their bodies give to indicate they are feeling overwhelmed, so they are able to self-correct. Discussion occurs around the development of healthy and effective coping skills. Examples of skills students can use at home and school are given. A self-care plan is provided to all students with BHR contact information included.

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• Signs of Suicide (SOS) ® (5th-9th gr) ~ An evidence-based universal suicide prevention program that teaches participants the signs of depression, signs suicide, and the importance of telling a Trusted Adult when they notice those warning signs in themselves or someone they know. Training sessions are available for youth starting in 5^th grade through college as well as parents, teachers, and community members. Through the screening and self-referral process in student trainings, SOS gives students an immediate, tangible action to seek help. Schools are able to identify students that may otherwise have fallen through the cracks and connect them with resources as early as possible.
• Social-Emotional Mentoring (kdg-12th gr) ~ The program uses the evidenced-based Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) competencies to improve the social and emotional wellbeing in students Kindergarten through 12^th grade. Participants in the program are matched with a CHADS Social Emotional Mentor and meet weekly one on one for 30-minute sessions structured on the five social emotional learning skills: Self-Management, Self-Awareness, Social-Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making. Research has shown that students who develop skills in these areas also experience improvement in grades, behavior, peer relationships and an overall sense of well-being.
• Family Support Counseling (kdg-12th gr) ~ This program provides targeted, short-term counseling support to children and adolescents (ages 25 and under) who are struggling with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and/or suicidal ideation. CHADS licensed and provisionally-licensed counselors and social workers utilize evidence-based Brief Solution-Focused Therapy interventions to help their clients set goals, develop coping skills, and find hope for the future. CHADS clinicians are thoroughly trained and uniquely qualified to address thoughts of suicide. Clients typically meet with their therapist weekly for 6-8 sessions actively moving toward their goals set during the first session.

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• Pinocchio Program (kdg-3rd gr) ~ This program is an early identification/early intervention program designed to serve children in kindergarten through third-grade identified as having emerging, mild to moderate behavioral problems, school adjustment issues, or emotionally-based social problems. The program helps children identify their emotions, supports children in finding their voice, and promotes the development of an improved self-concept.

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• Therapeutic Services (kdg-12th gr) ~  The School-Based Mental Health Program provides individual therapy, group therapy, and family therapy to students who either have a mental health diagnosis or present with symptoms that may lead to a mental health diagnosis.
• Great Circle Prevention Program (kdg-12th gr) ~ The School-Based Prevention Program provides behavior intervention services to students who have been identified as having behavior concerns in the classroom. Services provided focus on character improvement, academic success, and emotional regulation.

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