The Role of Counselor in Texas The Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (2017) last updated the scope of practice for Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC) in 2010 and defined counselors as applying mental health, therapeutic, and developmental principals to facilitate development and change through prevention, assessment, evaluation of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Counselors in Texas achieve congruence through evaluation and assessment, establishing goals, forming and implementing treatment plans utilizing counseling, assessing, consulting, and referring. Counselors practicing in Texas must not only follow the American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics but also the Code of Ethics in Texas (Texas …show more content…
I’ve never been a fan of standardized tests because I can’t fathom how a set of questions can determine one’s ability without taking other factors into consideration. The thing the comes to mind to me is the STAAR test that grades 5-12 are required to take each year. Not only do teachers spend two months teaching the test but by the time the test is administered the children are stressed out which could affect performance. While it is important that standards are available and enforced it is my opinion that clinicians look to more of than just the results of an assessment. The Multicultural Assessment standards discusses cultural competence, informed consent, knowledge of all aspects of testing including how the test is administered, scored, and reported. Similarly, counselors must understand the legal aspects of tests, from the security of the tests, scores, and consequences of cheating (Drummond, Sheperis, and Jones, …show more content…
I can’t imagine another act than Title VII that had such wide sweeping effects on how assessments are administered. Originally passed in 1964 after the horrors in Birmingham, AL, the statute was amended after the 1971 court case, Griggs v. Duke Power Company, and determined that African Americans were disproportionately discriminated against by requiring high school diplomas and passing grades on standardized tests for promotion. Rightly so, the Supreme Court sided with Griggs. The Act was again amended in 1978 and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and 1991 when it was amended to include jury trials for plaintiffs who sue over Title VII and, if successful, recover funds from the defendants (EEOC, 1999). Unfortunately, this will not stop all forms of discrimination, however, it does allow for employees to fight discrimination without
Years before this case existed, lawmakers put into law Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Under that law, it prohibited actions regarding discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment matters. This act also created the EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunities Commission to enforce Title VII.
Title VII under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted on July 2nd, 1964 as a mitigation strategy to prohibit any form of discrimination on grounds of a person’s religion, sex, color, race or their national origin. The law was originally meant to solve the problem of discrimination witnessed during voter registration. It was also expected to solve discrimination present at workplaces and schools where there was widespread racial discrimination. However, the law has become an even more relevant tool and has seen to it that hiring and firing processes by many companies are adherent to it.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has grown over the past few decades to ensure that employees, as well as employers, are protected against all employment discrimination. It is extremely important that both employers and employees know and understand what the law means and how to handle such acts of discrimination. As more amendments are passed into law, employers need to have clear and concise policies to help fight against discrimination.
This paper will provide a brief historical view of the counseling profession. In addition, it will focus on the importance of the philosophies of wellness, resilience, and prevention. Furthermore, it will identify the preferred counseling specialization and give a concise detail of how the profession was formed. Moreover, it will also discuss another counseling specialization that will go hand in hand with the preferred counseling specialization analyzing the case of a 12 year old female name Ashley. Hence, a brief discussion of the roles and functions of each professional will be given in details on how it would benefit Ashley and her family. Lastly, I will provide a brief example of how we would work as a team so that the end result will benefit each member of the family.
Standardized tests have been used to see how much a child has learned over a certain period of time. These tests have been a highly debated issue with many parents and just people in general. In the article “Opting out of standardized tests? Wrong answer,” the author Michelle Rhee argues that people should not be trying to opt out of standardized tests because it allows the country to see how much a child has learned and the things they need to improve. On the other hand, in the article “Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong,” the author Kristina Rizga argues that standardized tests are not an efficient way to measure a student’s intelligence.
Since 1976, The American Mental Health Counselors Association has been committed to establishing and promoting vigorous standards for education and training, professional practice, and professional ethics for Clinical Mental Health Counselors. So far, this association have 7,000 clinical mental health counselors but its organization is continuously growing (AMHCA).” “The American Mental Health Counselors Association have licensures laws in all 50 states, and the association seeks to enhance the practice of clinical mental health counseling and to promote standards for clinical education and clinical practice that anticipate the future roles of Clinical Mental Health Counselors within the broader health care system. This association was ultimately put together to define and promote professional identity of mental health counselors (AMHCA).”
The 1964 Civil Rights Act and its 1972 Title VII Amendment are federal directives that monitor unfair labor employment practices. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made leaps towards equal opportunities for all United States citizens (Doerner, 2016). This act impacted law enforcement job qualifications as it did all other career qualifications. With this act came the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which allowed federal regulations of employment by all employers and protects people from being excluded because of age, race, religion, sex, and color (Rose 1989). These federal regulations prevented law enforcement from denying a person employment just because they were African American or Hispanic. During this time that this act was passed,
Standardized testing is not an effective way to test the skills and abilities of today’s students. Standardized tests do not reveal what a student actually understands and learns, but instead only prove how well a student can do on a generic test. Schools have an obligation to prepare students for life, and with the power standardized tests have today, students are being cheated out of a proper, valuable education and forced to prepare and improve their test skills. Too much time, energy, and pressure to succeed are being devoted to standardized tests. Standardized testing, as it is being used presently, is a flawed way of testing the skills of today’s students.
HS 43 Term Paper 4 Core functions of a Substance Abuse Counselor By Roslyn Smith Introduction This paper will discuss the following 4 Core Functions of a Counselor: Case Management, Client Education, Crisis Intervention, Referral and their primary purposes. Discussion Case Management According to IC & RC, Case Management is defined as, “activities intended to bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals.
Counselors have large shoes to fill. They not only administer assessments, but are also involved in group counseling, individual counseling, and have to plan and implement comprehensive school guidance programs. A counselor must know and be competent in all realms of their position. School counselors work with all children, including children with disabilities in various settings within the school (Villalba, Latus, Hamilton, & Kendrick (2005 p 449). As stated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), school counseling services must be made available to all students in special education programs as part of their right to a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) (Bowen & Glenn, 1998; Clark, 1998). School counselors are to take on this role in the educational and personal-social well being of students in special education programs. Federal law does require that children, who receive special education services, and do not display appropriate behavior have a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) team (Villalba, Latus, Hamilton, & Kendrick (2005) p 449). This team constructs a BIP. Since counselors should be active on the FBA team, there is a need here that must be addressed because this article defines a lack of knowledge present with practicing counselors. With that, counselors do receive relevant training throughout their program. There are only so many classes and hours of instruction that the pre-counselors receive. The curriculum that is generated encompasses what counselors need, but could their be a few gaps and missing pieces? This study was conducted to determine counselors awareness, knowledge, and role in the Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) process (Villalba, Latus, Hamilton, & Ken...
The counselor’s objective is to identify the problem of the client and plan out the method of helping the client overcome the problem. The most rewarding part of being a counselor is the ability to make a difference in people’s lives. In private practice, there is a constant push to become more skilled at helping so that clients will refer others to you for help. It is also important to follow up with the client about their well-being even after treatment has ended to ensure that they are still living a healthy and stress-free life. The client must make time for all scheduled sessions with the counselor for best results of treatment. If we don’t express our feelings during counseling sessions, the hurt and frustration behind the situation will build up, and once the client releases, it may trigger other situations and bring on severe mental health
The reading “What is a Licensed Mental Health or Professional Counselor” provides a series of roles and organizations that the beginning counselor can utilize in order to sustain a career in this field. In some ways, the confusion of the mental health profession is based on the wide variety of career paths a counselor can take, especially when engaging in such an ambiguous and subjective role when engaging clients and other professionals from differing disciplines: “To counsel commonly refers to activities such as deliberating, consulting, guiding, or advising” (5). These factors not only open a broad range of career opportunities, it is difficult for the counselor to find a stable sense of self in this environment. More so, the role of
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex and national origin. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 amended several sections of Title VII. Section 703 (a)(1) of Title VII provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer :
Albert Einstein once said “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”. Standardized tests do not measure a student's imagination or creativity and therefore can not accurately measure someone's intelligence. Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of not only a student's intelligence but their creativity, motivation, integrity, honesty and so many more valuable characteristics. Being a student myself and having gone through tests such as MCAS and the PSAT, I can say that these tests generalize and limit students, and they are simply meant to assess general knowledge. For some students standardized tests are their worst nightmare, for some it is impossible to complete a test in the way that is seen as “normal” in the eyes of the state or country. My sister for example is dyslexic, so according to her standardized test scores she is seen as
A study performed in 1992, reported approximately 3,400,000 youth had failed to complete high school and were not enrolled in high school (Starr 1998). This statistic is based on the United States where job competition has greatly increased due to technology. Many of these student lacked the support and training necessary to succeed in today’s society. Currently in every high school across the nation, there is a person responsible for offering support and training to the youth of America. Available for all students is a guidance counselor. Counselors within the high school setting play an influential role in the forming of post high school goals through the planning of numerous activities.