The Role of the School Counsellor
The school counsellor's major task is to work with students, teachers, other student support services staff, outside agencies, and parents to support the social, emotional, behavioural, and intellectual development of all students.
The counsellor works with students on a one to one basis when required, although some student/counsellor interaction may occur in groups.
Referrals to the counsellor come from the students themselves, parents, teachers, and/or other professionals.
Your school guidance counsellor may be able to help you with your concerns about:
- Alcohol/Drugs
- Anger
- Apprenticeship programs
- Bursaries/scholarships/student loans
- Career choices
- Courses selection
- Prerequisites for post-secondary education
- Dating
- Family breakdown
- Finding a job
- Friends
- Home, parents, guardians
- Homework
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- Intimate relationships
- Loss/grief
- Mentoring
- Money management
- Peer pressure
- Personal crisis
- Personal health
- Schoolwork
- Studying
- Teachers and/or other adults
- Tutoring
- Universities, colleges available
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Your School Counsellor can help you by...
- Listening
- Maintaining confidentiality according to the Manitoba School Counsellor's Code of Ethics
- Assisting with problem solving
- Exploring alternatives together
- Providing information
- Putting you in contact with appropriate agencies
- Making direct referrals
- Setting up study guides, timetables
- Mediating conflicts
- Exploring your career aptitudes with you
- Advising you on course choices
- Providing information on universities, colleges, bursaries, scholarships, and careers
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