COUNSELLING SERVICES

School Counseling

School counseling empowers the whole child by:

  • Advancing students’ academic achievement,
  • Career readiness,
  • Social-emotional well-being,
  • Character Development.

Through a comprehensive school counseling program, Our school counsellors collaborate with:

  • Students,
  • Families,
  • Educators,
  • Community organizations

The program delivers:

  • Impactful guidance lessons,
  • Tailored counseling services,
  • Essential resources.

School counsellors

We deliver and review school counseling programs (if there are any) that should cover the foundations of counseling. Our aim is that these programs be integrated into the school’s mission and become part of the learning environment regardless of students’ ages or grade levels.

Few people would argue that there is no need for school counseling. Children and young people are not immune from stress, and the issues that cause that stress are increasingly complex (divorces, single parenting, death of parent(s)), just but a few. Recognizing those things, it is rewarding for schools to have school counselors. Additionally, we have put standards-based programs in place to ensure that the counselling will meet the needs of the students.

Focus of TeenMAP Comprehensive Counselling Programs

The primary aim of a comprehensive counselling program is to ensure the best outcome for every student with due attention given to their unique characteristics, including social factors such as home environment and family circumstances. The scope of the program is broad with a special focus on preventive and developmental strategies. Program development is typically based on data collected over the years.

 

The TeenMAP Model

The most effective school counselling programs result from the collaboration of the counsellor, families and other school staff. The program covers the four developmental domains, which are academic, career goals, Character development and social/ emotional support.

Our programs achieve the maximum results with the least use of resources (the counsellors themselves).

Role of the School Counsellor

School guidance counsellors provide direct and indirect services to students. The school counsellor may provide guidance for making career choices. These functions are in addition to the day-to-day activities that may include meetings with parents, one-on-one interviews with students requiring assistance and similar pursuits.

Counsellors work with individual students, with groups of students (such as a peer group that has been disruptive) with classes and entire schools.

 

School Culture

Every school has a culture, and that culture is formed over time by faculty, staff members, the community around the school and even the students. A school’s culture might be reflected in the unwritten rules of behaviour, means of conflict resolution, safety of students, cleanliness and other things that influence student success or failure.

Elementary Counselling

Issues elementary students face usually involve the home environment. Issues such as behavioural disorders are compounded by physical and/or emotional abuse. A lack of resources may result in hunger or in not having seasonally appropriate clothing. Sometimes the counsellors take on substitute parental roles while working with this age group.

Middle School Counselling

Middle schoolers face many of the same problems, but also begin to deal with body-image, drug abuse, relationships and bullying. Additionally, students in this age group are especially vulnerable to peer pressure. It is at this age, too, that academic pressure rises up because grades are beginning to appear on permanent records.

High School Counseling

Counselors at the high school level are primarily concerned with helping students eliminate obstacles to academic success and in assisting them in charting an educational course that includes application to colleges and universities and obtaining resources. Additionally, counselors will continue to work with students who struggle with other underlying needs.

The counsellor-to-student ratio varies by school. Effective implementation of TeenMAP’s comprehensive school counselling program will definitely have a direct impact on raising student achievement, reducing the number of discipline referrals and managing behaviour issues in all grade levels.

Measuring the Impact of School Counselling Programs

Program effectiveness should be measurable, and it is the job of the counselor to demonstrate these outcomes based on data generated by school activities. The key benchmarks are student achievement, behavior improvement and attendance, which are all quantifiable in some way.

Positive Effects

It has been shown that lower ratios lower the number of behaviour incidents reported and raise the level of student academic performance.

Collaboration

When counsellors collaborate with teachers, parents and community, there will be systemic changes in the life of the student(s).

Proactive Counseling

When counseling is done proactively in schools, before students experience problems, there is less behavioral cases reported.

Behavior Issues

Counseling has been shown to lessen classroom disturbances that are due to behavioral issues. That, in turn, allows teachers to work unencumbered and to deliver a higher quality of instruction.

Risk Intervention

Counselors, because of their training, can identify and assist at-risk children and youth; having developed and implemented programs that addressed needs at all levels.

School Counselor Success

Writing reports, meetings, such as those with family members or teachers and other people involved with student success. So is assessing student needs through tests and interviews. Additionally, there is certainly time spent in face-to-face contact with individual students and student groups.

Conclusion

A comprehensive school counselling program focuses on the needs of students to ensure that they can make the most of their educational experience. The program addresses the key aspects, including academic achievement, career guidance and support for social and emotional challenges.

OTHER COUNSELLING SERVICES

Counseling is a talking therapy that focuses on the improvement of an individual, a group, interfamilial relationships and behaviors. We Offer the following Services:

Individual therapy can be for a child, teenager, and adult.

Group therapy includes organised people who are in a group, a school or any organisation/company.

In family therapy can consist of many different combinations of loved ones, such as parents/guardians and their children, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends, kinship caregivers, etc.

Marriage counseling/couples therapy involves the married; helps to determine their problems and work on solutions. Issues may be related to communication, raising children, finances, understanding spouse’s and own mental health condition and more.

Premarital counselling is intended to assist couples in getting ready for marriage by discussing significant issues, possible challenges, and developing their ability to communicate and resolve conflicts. It’s a chance to establish a solid basis for a happy, long-lasting marriage.

Grief counselling is designed to help an individual (s) work through the various stages and range of emotions one may feel after a loss. How persons experience grief can vary from person to person.

Problems that therapy can help fix include (but aren’t limited to):

  • Strained relationships.
  • Stress.
  • Anger.
  • Communication issues.
  • Trauma (physical or emotional).
  • Coping with acute or chronic illness 
  • The death of a loved one and grief.
  • Divorce or romantic relationship issues.
  • Coping with sudden changes, such as unemployment, moving or imprisonment.
  • Adjusting to a new life change.
  • Death and grief, loss (job, relationship, etc).
  • Treat certain mental health or behavioral conditions.

Therapy can provide support, education and guidance to you and your loved ones to help you function better and increase your well-being.