"The Resilient School Counselor: Extending our Influence and Enhancing our Work”

Full-Morning Professional Development Institutes
10:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Please indicate your 1st and 2nd choices on the Registration Form.

I. What Counselors Should Know That Teachers Know (K-12)
In order to effectively communicate with and advise teachers, counselors must be familiar with two critical strands which significantly impact the learning of all students: what teachers know and do, and what teachers and students believe. The workshop will focus on specific examples of teacher repertoires from each strand, which are likely to have a significant impact on the counselor's own work.

Presenter: Ned Paulsen, Private Consultant

II. Clinical Advocacy Skills for the School Counselor (K-12)
In our work with students we are often confronted with situations which extend beyond the boundaries of individual intervention and require challenges to existing systems. A panel of school practitioners and counselor educators will discuss a wide variety of advocacy-based intervention strategies, including empowerment and social action, and consider case applications. This program will provide school counselors with the clinical skills that will enable them to extend and enhance the scope of their work to challenge systems that present barriers to student success.

Presenter: Kathryn Douthit, Assistant Professor, Counseling and Human Development, Warner School, University of Rochester

III. Clinical Supervision: An Imperative for the Resilient Counselor: Part 1 and Part 2 (K-12)
Clinical supervision is not only important in training new counselors, but is also a crucial element in school counselors’ continued professional growth and development. Research indicates that clinical supervision enhances school counselors’ skills, self-efficacy, and self-awareness and can mediate against stress and burnout. Many counselors do not feel they are receiving adequate clinical supervision at their schools. In the first half of this two-part session*, participants will learn the fundamental abilities, interventions and theory they need to supervise graduate interns. In Part 2, participants will incorporate these principles of clinical supervision into a peer supervision activity appropriate for work with colleagues.

*(Although the second session will incorporate concepts presented in the first session, participants are welcome to attend either part independent of the other.)

Presenters: Douglas Guiffrida, Assistant Professor,
Counseling and Human Development, Warner School, University of Rochester

Stephen Demanchick, Doctoral Student, Warner School, University of Rochester

Derek Seward, Doctoral Student, Warner School, University of Rochester

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