Chapter 4: GUIDANCE PERSONNEL (ROLES AND FUNCTIONS) PART 1

The Guidance Director is responsible to meet with parents about
their children's concerns, meets with students, establishes and maintains
mutually beneficial relationships with staff, attends national and regional
conferences, prepares reports and yearly budget plan and provides counseling
to students advisers.

The Guidance Counselor assists and talks to students, people with
personal, family, educational, mental health and career decisions and problems;
listens to problems, and helps students to become problem-solvers on their own.

Counseling in schools includes the following services:
• Individual Counseling
• Group Counseling
• Student Appraisal
• Referral
• Consultation
• Coordination

The qualities and behaviors as well as the important part of the counseling
process for students are as follows:
• Intellectual Competence
• Energy
• Flexibility
• Support
• Good Will

The advantages of school counseling are:
• get to touch the life of the students
• able to reach out and help someone solve problem;
for the students to grow emotionally and be ready for more challenging life events
• have the opportunity to work with a variety of professionals

The disadvantages of school counseling are:
• both emotionally and physically draining
• can cause stress
• listening to the problems with no solutions

Psychometrician is someone develops test, while the one who conducts testing is called a psychbometrist.

A psychometrician identifies and selects tests, setting the schedule of testing services,
provides counselors with the result of the tests, encodes and makes summaries of test result,
prepares testing materials and keeps test materials and tests results.

A Researcher designs, collects, manages, analyze information, and formulates and
conducts research projects..

Guidance Secretary makes appointments, puts files in order, writes letters and anwser
the phone, makes travel plans, and makes sure that the information that leaves the office is right.