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School Counselors Lived Experience Of A Rampage School Shooting, Carleton H. Brown Dec 2015

School Counselors Lived Experience Of A Rampage School Shooting, Carleton H. Brown

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Minimal research has been conducted to examine school counselors’ lived experiences of rampage school shootings. The purpose of this research is to increase school counselors’ knowledge and skills in responding effectively to such a crisis. A single-case qualitative dissertation study was completed at a rampage school shooting site, a middle school, and the immediate surrounding area in Bono, AR, located in the northeast part of Arkansas. School counselors’ decisions, perceived expertness, and lessons learned were investigated. Data collected included relevant research literature (including comparison research), archival records, direct observation, media reports, and interviews. Participants interviewed were individuals who lived through …


Slo's And School Counseling: A Perfect Fit, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Nov 2015

Slo's And School Counseling: A Perfect Fit, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Brandie M. Oliver

Dr. Brandie Oliver and Dr. Nick Abel address student learning outcomes for school counselors in the March 2015 issue of IndianaGram.


How School Counselors Can Help Boost Student Test Scores, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver Nov 2015

How School Counselors Can Help Boost Student Test Scores, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver

Brandie M. Oliver

Drs. Oliver and Abel address the changing role of school counselors in standardized testing in the April 2015 edition of IndianaGram.


Slo's And School Counseling: A Perfect Fit, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Nov 2015

Slo's And School Counseling: A Perfect Fit, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Dr. Brandie Oliver and Dr. Nick Abel address student learning outcomes for school counselors in the March 2015 issue of IndianaGram.


How School Counselors Can Help Boost Student Test Scores, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver Nov 2015

How School Counselors Can Help Boost Student Test Scores, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver

Nick R. Abel

Drs. Oliver and Abel address the changing role of school counselors in standardized testing in the April 2015 edition of IndianaGram.


What Does Your School’S Counseling Program Look Like?, Brandie M. Oliver Nov 2015

What Does Your School’S Counseling Program Look Like?, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Dr. Oliver examines what makes a school counseling program effective.


How Can The Stages Of Peck's Community-Making Model Be Identified Andpredicted For A Collegiate Basketball Team Over The Course Of Consecutive Seasons?, Troyann I. Gentile Oct 2015

How Can The Stages Of Peck's Community-Making Model Be Identified Andpredicted For A Collegiate Basketball Team Over The Course Of Consecutive Seasons?, Troyann I. Gentile

Troyann I. Gentile

The purpose of this study was to explore how Peck’s (1987) stages of Community-Making could be identified and predicted for a collegiate basketball team over the course of consecutive seasons by exploring Cohesion, Flow, and athletic performance. The study utilized a repeated measures longitudinal survey design with the members of a Division I collegiate level female basketball team (N = 13) during the athletic seasons of 1999/2000 and 2000/2001. Participants completed both the Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Brawley, & Widmeyer, 2002) and the Flow State Scale -2 (Jackson & Eklund, 2003) pre and post competition at several times over the …


Going Back To The Basics To Address School Bullying, Brandie M. Oliver Oct 2015

Going Back To The Basics To Address School Bullying, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Dr. Oliver writes about how to take action against school bullying.


What Does Your Plan Say? Working To Develop A Model Suicide Prevention Plan, Brandie M. Oliver Sep 2015

What Does Your Plan Say? Working To Develop A Model Suicide Prevention Plan, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

In this article, Dr. Oliver explains the importance of a comprehensive suicide plan.


An Innovative Approach To Tackling Truancy, Brandie Oliver Aug 2015

An Innovative Approach To Tackling Truancy, Brandie Oliver

Brandie M. Oliver

J. Eagle, School counselors making a difference, Counseling Today, December.


Data, Collaboration, And Advocacy: Partnerships To Promote Evidence-Based School Counseling, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver Aug 2015

Data, Collaboration, And Advocacy: Partnerships To Promote Evidence-Based School Counseling, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver

Brandie M. Oliver

Handout accompanying the roundtable conducted at the annual conference of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling, Moline, IL. 2014, September.


The School Counselor As The School’S “Counselor”, Brandie M. Oliver, Susan Kleinman Aug 2015

The School Counselor As The School’S “Counselor”, Brandie M. Oliver, Susan Kleinman

Brandie M. Oliver

Dr. Oliver addresses the role of the school counselor of attending to the psychological dimensions of the school experience.


Advocacy, Outreach, And Collaboration: Working To Reduce The School To Prison Pipeline, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Aug 2015

Advocacy, Outreach, And Collaboration: Working To Reduce The School To Prison Pipeline, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Brandie M. Oliver

Learning session co-conducted at the annual conference of the Center for School Mental Health, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014, September.


School Counseling, Brandie M. Oliver Aug 2015

School Counseling, Brandie M. Oliver

Brandie M. Oliver

Dr. Oliver's contribution to Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. SAGE Publications.


School Counselor Evaluation: Why It Should Be Different, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Aug 2015

School Counselor Evaluation: Why It Should Be Different, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Brandie M. Oliver

Dr.s Oliver and Abel address school counselor evaluation in the October 2014 issue of IndianaGram.


Redefining School Counseling: What’S In A Name?, Brandie M. Oliver Aug 2015

Redefining School Counseling: What’S In A Name?, Brandie M. Oliver

Brandie M. Oliver

Dr. Oliver addresses the necessity of changing the title of the school counselor from "guidance" counselor to better reflect the role of the 21st century practitioner.


School Administrators + School Counselors = School Success, Brandie M. Oliver May 2015

School Administrators + School Counselors = School Success, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Dr. Oliver share her takeaways from an #scchat Twitter chat addressing relationships between school administrators and school counselors.


How School Counselors Can Help Boost Student Test Scores, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver Apr 2015

How School Counselors Can Help Boost Student Test Scores, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Drs. Oliver and Abel address the changing role of school counselors in standardized testing in the April 2015 edition of IndianaGram.


California Student Counselors Reflect On A Study Abroad Experience In New Zealand, John M. Winslade, Lorraine Hedtke, Amy Douglass, Korina Echeverria, Dorry Lillard, Joanna Garcia, Stefany Zacarias, Samantha Stephens, Krystal Howard Apr 2015

California Student Counselors Reflect On A Study Abroad Experience In New Zealand, John M. Winslade, Lorraine Hedtke, Amy Douglass, Korina Echeverria, Dorry Lillard, Joanna Garcia, Stefany Zacarias, Samantha Stephens, Krystal Howard

Special Education, Rehabilitation & Counseling Faculty Publications

Seven counseling and guidance students from California participated in a study abroad program in which they were placed in a high school in Auckland, New Zealand, for one month. Their comments on the experience in response to researchers’ questions form the basis of this paper. They suggest that the participants benefited from being immersed in a culturally different context where they had to consider differences in school organization, counseling priorities, and students’ cultural mores. This immersion required them to think about their own professional values and to engage in high level learning, appropriate to masters level field experience work. They …


Slo's And School Counseling: A Perfect Fit, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Mar 2015

Slo's And School Counseling: A Perfect Fit, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Dr. Brandie Oliver and Dr. Nick Abel address student learning outcomes for school counselors in the March 2015 issue of IndianaGram.


Data, Collaboration, And Advocacy: Partnerships To Promote Evidence-Based School Counseling, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver Feb 2015

Data, Collaboration, And Advocacy: Partnerships To Promote Evidence-Based School Counseling, Nick R. Abel, Brandie M. Oliver

Nick R. Abel

Handout accompanying the roundtable conducted at the annual conference of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling, Moline, IL. 2014, September.


20 Strategies To Help Students With Mental Health Needs, Richard Auger, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

20 Strategies To Help Students With Mental Health Needs, Richard Auger, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Learning session co-conducted at the annual conference of the Minnesota School Counselor Association, Brainerd, MN. 2012, May.


Naviance Beyond The Counseling Office, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

Naviance Beyond The Counseling Office, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Learning session conducted at Indiana Naviance User Group, Indianapolis, IN. 2013, November.


Trait Emotional Intelligence, Perceived Discrimination, And Academic Achievement Among African American And Latina/O High School Students: A Study Of Academic Resilience, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

Trait Emotional Intelligence, Perceived Discrimination, And Academic Achievement Among African American And Latina/O High School Students: A Study Of Academic Resilience, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

The goal of academic resilience research is to identify factors and processes which lead to academic success among groups of students generally found to be at-risk, including those of African American and Latina/o descent. The present study investigated a possible risk factor (perceptions of discrimination), a possible protective factor (emotional intelligence), and the role of gender in predicting academic achievement (as measured by high school GPA) in a sample (N = 79) of African American and Latina/o high school students attending one high school in Minnesota. Through the use of multiple regression, neither emotional intelligence nor perceptions of discrimination was …


The Role Of The School Counselor In Meeting Student’S Mental Health Needs: Overcoming Barriers And Seizing Opportunities, Richard Auger, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

The Role Of The School Counselor In Meeting Student’S Mental Health Needs: Overcoming Barriers And Seizing Opportunities, Richard Auger, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Learning session co-presented at the annual conference of the Center for School Mental Health, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014, September.


A High School Counselor’S Leadership In Providing School-Wide Screenings For Depression And Enhancing Suicide Awareness, Anne Erickson, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

A High School Counselor’S Leadership In Providing School-Wide Screenings For Depression And Enhancing Suicide Awareness, Anne Erickson, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

The prevalence of mental health issues and suicidal thoughts and actions among school-aged children and adolescents is a serious issue. This article examines the scope of the problem nationwide and provides a brief overview of the literature regarding the effectiveness of school-wide screening programs for depression and suicide risk. The authors describe a suicide prevention program that has been implemented by the first author (a high school counselor in Minnesota) that combines classroom guidance, screening, and referrals for outside mental health services. This article includes recommendations for school counselors interested in implementing a school-wide screening and prevention program.


Advocacy, Outreach, And Collaboration: Working To Reduce The School To Prison Pipeline, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

Advocacy, Outreach, And Collaboration: Working To Reduce The School To Prison Pipeline, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Learning session co-conducted at the annual conference of the Center for School Mental Health, Pittsburgh, PA. 2014, September.


Listening To The Voices Of Adolescents Who Had Mental Health Problems In The K-12 Years, Richard Auger, Nick R. Abel, Jennifer Pepperell Feb 2015

Listening To The Voices Of Adolescents Who Had Mental Health Problems In The K-12 Years, Richard Auger, Nick R. Abel, Jennifer Pepperell

Nick R. Abel

Learning session co-conducted at the annual conference of the Minnesota School Counselor Association, Brainerd, MN. 2011, May.


Shakespeare & School Counseling, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

Shakespeare & School Counseling, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Dr. Abel addresses the use of Shakespeare in school counseling settings. Methods include bibliotherapy and applying Shakespeare to the Hunter Method.


School Counselor Evaluation: Why It Should Be Different, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel Feb 2015

School Counselor Evaluation: Why It Should Be Different, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Nick R. Abel

Dr.s Oliver and Abel address school counselor evaluation in the October 2014 issue of IndianaGram.