This week, Jessica Lahey's article 3 Things School Counselors Want You To Know appeared on the New York Times blog. It's a quick read that sums up a lot about what it means to be a school counselor today.
An excerpt from the post:
Don’t call them “guidance counselors.” The proper title is “school counselor,” she explained in an email. “School counselors chafe at the outdated term ‘guidance counselor,’ a relic from the past that no longer reflects our role,” she wrote. The profession was vocationally oriented and counselors had inconsistent educational backgrounds and levels of certification until the American School Counselor Association published “The ASCA National Model: A Foundation for School Counseling Programs” in 2003 in an effort to standardize the field.
