CSCP - Chapter 2 & 3
What type of leadership style assesses programs to determine if their programs yield measureable results and ways in which to improve their services?
Accountability leadership
One important characteristic of effective schools is that they:
Are developmentally appropriate
Early schools often reflected the society in which they were created. What model were schools initially based on?
Business
According to UCLA's School Mental Health Project for Mental Health in Schools (1999), society desire each of these outcomes for its youth:
Communication skills, academics, and health and safety behaviors.
Effective schools can be characterized by which of the following?
Connections among staff, teachers, students, caregivers; consistently fair decision making; encouraging environment (all of the above)
Which legislation requires schools to provide access to all school records to the parents of minor students and to the student themselves after they reach the age of 18.
Grassley Amendment (p.35)
Which of the following statements is not a school counselors' responsibilities pertaining to suspected child abuse or neglect?
Investigating allegations
What are the three areas in which school counselors should strive to build effective working relationships?
Outside Community, School System, and Student Services Professionals
What type of leadership do Torbert and Rook (2005) state is a more advanced, more democratic, and more effective model of leadership that harnesses diversity, builds community, and creates shared responsibility for action?
Participatory leadership
Research has shown that school environments that are developmentally appropriate demonstrate increased levels of:
academic achievement
The three domains of ASCA's model for school counseling are:
academic, social/emotional, & career development
What principle of primary importance emerges in an effective school setting?
caring environment and emphasis on holistic development
Informed consent involves consent for _________itself, as well as consent for ________ within the limits and conditions of counseling.
counseling; services
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 provides students with protection against:
discrimination on the basis of sex, exclusion from participation in, or denial of benefits, or discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
What type of leadership is shared among professionals in a school in both formal and informal contexts and roles?
distributed leadership
School Counselors should have the following knowledge in the practice of developing a holistic picture of ethical counseling:
ethics, laws, policies, & procedures that pertain to work with students; current issues, law, & expert advice; own professional issues; a process by which you can factor these elements together (all of the above)
As counselors we promote what we believe helps students make _________ choices and we discourage what we believe to be __________ choices.
healthy; unhealthy
The American School Counseling Association (2005) views school counselors as:
leaders, monitors, and advocates (all of the above)
How can school counselors fulfill their role as monitors and advocates for students?
monitor grades, behavior stats, & test scores; collaborate w/ others school professionals; alert school professional and families of student progress (all of the above)
It is critical that counselors examine the following when making choices that shape our work with students.
personal values, professional values, and moral vision (all of the above)
The definition of abuse or neglect generally includes which of the following instances:
physical/sexual abuse, abandonment, psychological/emotional torment, and inadequate supervision (all of the above)
Developmentally appropriate education:
refers to educational experiences that are tailored to the developmental needs of students in terms of social skills, emotional maturation, and academic strengths and challenges; was first used to describe educational strategies for preschool age children; provides balance among academic, social, and emotional goals (all of the above)
In terms of sexual diversity, schools have a legal obligation to address ________ to__________ sexual harassment, and schools that do not do so can be held liable for violating the federal civil rights law under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
student; student
Why is there a need for greater collaboration among student services professionals, such as school psychologists, school social workers, school counselors, and school nurses?
to enable students to become health, resilient, and successful
According to Sink (2009), what must school counselors be able to do understand fully the impact of their programs?
weave literature-based best practices with qualitative and quantitative data
