Videos
SOMETIMES AN IDEA BECOMES CLEARER WHEN WE CAN SEE IT, HEAR IT, AND EXPERIENCE IT.
This collection brings together videos created to explore the work of school counseling, advocate for appropriate counselor roles, share stories from practice, and connect professional ideas with the students and families at the heart of our work.
For more than two decades, Counseling Today has been a place where research meets practice—and where ideas become resources that help professionals better serve students.
Take a brief tour of the professional learning, signature resources, research-informed tools, and practical materials that make up Counseling Today today.
School Counseling: Role & Impact
School counselors play an essential role in helping students learn, grow, navigate challenges, and prepare for what comes next. These videos explore the scope, purpose, and impact of comprehensive school counseling practice.
School counselors support far more than academic planning. This video explores the important role counselors play in students' academic development, social-emotional well-being, relationships, decision-making, and overall success.
For reflection:
How well does your school community understand the full scope and impact of the school counselor's role?
School Counseling in the Real World
What happens when school counselors are assigned responsibilities that take them away from counseling? This collection of short videos uses humor and familiar school scenarios to explore counselor role alignment—and the very real consequences for students when counselors aren't available to do the work they are trained to do.
The Counselor Who Doesn't Get to Counsel
When non-counseling duties become so extensive that school counselors have too little time to provide counseling.
Oh, You Wanted Me to Counsel?
When testing responsibilities take counselors away from the students who need them.
Reassigned, Not Available
A parent's request for help reveals what students and families lose when counselors are reassigned to non-counseling responsibilities.
Trauma? Can You Email It?
When non-counseling duties interfere with access to counseling and crisis support.
FROM WATCHING TO REFLECTION
These shorts can also serve as conversation starters for counselor teams, administrators, faculty, and professional learning groups. Consider what each scenario reveals about counselor role alignment, student access, and the responsibilities schools prioritize.
Stories From the Counseling Office
Reflective stories offer another way to understand school counseling: through the experiences of students, families, and the counselors who walk alongside them.
A family move involves much more than changing an address. Coloring Outside the Lines explores the less-visible emotions children may carry through transition—and the role school counselors can play in helping students and families navigate change.
For reflection:
How can school counselors help families recognize and respond to the less-visible ways transitions and life changes affect children?
New videos will be added as Counseling Today continues exploring school counseling practice, student well-being, professional advocacy, and the stories behind the work.
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Articles
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