1. Beyond the Training Program: A School Counseling Career
CHAPTER 12

2. GOALS
To offer suggestions for enhancing the professional identity and wellbeing of school counselors and discuss future prospects for school counselors.

3. Beyond THE TRAINING PROGRAM
Keeping motivated
Avoid burnout, a widely used label for a broad range of symptoms leading to losing the interest or competence to perform one’s job effectively
Be proactive

4. KEEPING MOTIVATED Cognitive health Physical health
Healthy interactions
Reasonable workload
Enhanced competence

5. KEEPING CURRENT Self-renewal from two perspectives:
First perspective: defines self-renewal as updating and streamlining previously acquired skills and knowledge to ensure that one knows what has been learned and adds new ideas to old approaches.
Second perspective: counselors can use self-renewal to acquire techniques, ideas, and skills they never had before, making them even more versatile.

6. What Does The Future Hold For School Counselors?
Meeting the need for leadership
Meeting the need for collaboration
Promoting the utility of the ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs

7. SCHOOL COUNSELOR CONSULTING MODES
Prescription mode
Provision mode
Initiation mode
Collaboration mode
Mediation mode

8. REFLECTION
Examine your views about school counseling when you decided to enter into this profession. How does that view compare and contrast to what you have learned thus far?
Reflect upon the importance of advocating for your role. How might you accomplish this when you interview for your first school counseling position?

9. APPLICATION TO TECHNOLOGY
If you have been building the components of your professional website, go live and continue to add content as you move through your preparation program.
Create a business card that includes a link to your professional website. Be sure to share this business card when you interview for potential jobs or are searching for an internship site.