Canadian School Counselling Week is a week to recognize the contributions of the school counselling profession to the personal, social, academic and career development, and the mental health and wellbeing of all students in Canada. Canadian School Counselling Week is being celebrated Feb. 2-6. This recognition week has been organized by the School Counsellors Chapter of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.
Canadian School Counselling Week will be part of a North American focus on the school counselling profession. The goal is to increase the public’s awareness of the scope of programs and services that characterize the school counselling profession in Canada within the21st century and beyond.
This special week will highlight the role school counsellors play in supporting student success. It will also build a sense of national identity within the school counselling profession.
In Living Sky School Division there are 12 professional school counsellors offering services to 30 schools.
“Our school counsellors focus on the personal, emotional and social needs of students,” states a release issued by Living Sky School Division. “The counsellor meets with students one at a time and in groups. Counselling happens during the school day in a private room in the school and discretion is used so the student does not feel like everyone knows he or she is seeing the counsellor.”
According to the LLSD, school counsellors may also give classroom presentations on certain topics, or deal with crisis intervention. Referrals can be made by principals, teachers, parents, agencies, and students.
In 2015, CCPA will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The association was initiated in 1965 by school guidance counsellors as CGCA.
To learn more about Canadian School Counsellors contact the School Counsellors Chapter of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association at http://www.ccpa-accp.ca/en/chapters/schoolcounsellors/.
