As a school counselor or other mental health provider in a school, you rarely have the resources to see students
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Empower students to escape negative thinking traps by guiding them to reframe negative thoughts. Once students identify these cognitive distortions, real change
One box I can always count on being checked on the needs assessment is ☑WORRY. Our students are coming to school with
Time to stock your school counseling office with all the games, supplies, and kid-favorite items! We asked Confident Counselor contributors to share
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Counselor Chats
Strategies for When Teachers Over Refer Students
Let’s talk about one side of the referral problem – the flood, not the drought. Some teachers hold back on referrals until a student is lighting small fires in the hallway. Others? They’ll send a student your way if they so much as frown during circle time.Over-referrals are real, and they can clog up your
Do you practice gratitude as a school counselor? Purposefully taking time to express thanks and appreciation for others as well as yourself
When school counselors start the year, a lot of misconceptions can exist about their role. Our role has evolved greatly over time.
Do you host parents events at your school? Are you thinking about it? Parents events can be a great way to build
Counseling Activities with Everyday items
5 School Counseling Activities Using Toilet Paper Tubes
Laurie P Mendoza
At Confident Counselors, we love using materials we have at school or home for school counseling crafts. We’ve used coffee filters and tissue boxes, and now we’ve found what to do with those empty toilet paper tubes. Writing a post on using toilet paper tubes for counseling activities required a great deal of self-restraint on my part. Do you know just
Halloween is coming! Which at my house means there is a lot of excess candy lying around that I can’t (shouldn’t) eat all by myself. If only I had access ...
Let’s face it, kids are used to having worksheets and templates and preprinted note pages, but sometimes I don't have time to gather those fancy materials. In my office, I ...
Inspired by reading Counselor Keri’s “Five Ways To Use Coffee Filters In School Counseling,” I excitedly went through my resources and office supplies to create and share 5 ways counselors ...
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In the Classroom
Teaching Kids The Definition Of Bullying
Counselor Chelsey
Do the students at your school need clarification about what bullying really means? Do they refer to any mean act as bullying? Maybe they keep severe bullying under wraps because they don’t think it’s a
As school counselors, it’s easy to talk to students about things that are bugging them, help with problems they are having, and be their champion when they need one. It’s ...
Teachers and counselors undoubtedly value social-emotional learning (SEL). We know that children need to learn SEL skills to succeed in and out of the classroom. Unfortunately, time is often the ...
Incorporating technology in school counseling can really engage students, but sometimes it can be hard to figure out how to use it in simple ways. Some Confident Counselors have great ...
