By Heather M. Couch
The School Counselor’s Guide to Surviving the First Year
Companion Book
This practical guide includes topics from internship to professional development from an intimate perspective within the context of real-life scenarios. Drawing from personal experiences, journal articles, textbooks, and excerpts by numerous professional school counselors, it fuses what a school counseling trainee learns in their graduate program and the field experience they get into one unique guide. Emphasizing hands-on approaches, this volume offers personal as well as professional steps toward success in the ins and outs of counseling.
This book is a valuable toolkit for the developmental journey of school counselors in-training and beginning school counselors.
School Counselor
Heather M. Couch
Heather is getting her Ed. D. in Educational Leadership at Miami University. In 2016, Heather received her MA in School Counseling form Xavier University. She has diverse experience in schools throughout Southwest Ohio. Heather helped create and implement a Whole Child Initiative, a new college and career curriculum, and spearhead a social emotional learning curriculum. She was on the Kentucky School Counselor Association board, member on the American School Counselor Association Position Statement Committee, and has presented at school counselor conferences throughout the US. Heather is an Emerging Leader for the Ohio School Counselor Association, recently presented at the American School Counselor Association Conference, is on the YMCA Camp Ernst Board, and is a middle school counselor. Please contact her for a full bio or CV.
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I highly recommend this book! It will be a valuable resource for students taking a school counseling internship and/or starting a new school counseling position. I am not aware of any other book that focuses specifically on these two important years. Heather walks the new counselor through a variety of opportunities and challenges. I certainly could have used this resource when I started as a school counselor 30 years ago. She is clearly an advocate for the profession and professional school counselors.
– Dr. Brent Richardson, Xavier University
THIS is the guide I wish I’d have had when I was a newbie school counselor all of those years ago who had a million questions and the counselor next door (who “didn’t take me to raise!”) didn’t always have the time to answer them for me. From getting hired to navigating that first year, from working with your administrative team to collaborating with colleagues, from understanding crisis response to responding to your own biases (and so much more), no topic is off limits and no stone is left unturned in this comprehensive, must-read manual.
– Barbara Gruener
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