1.
CALM
AMIDST
THE
CHAOS
Best Practices for Taking Your
College Counseling Online

2.
Cyndy McDonald,
PPS/MA
◦ BS in Behavioral Science and MA in Education
◦ UCLA instructor in College Counseling Certificate Program
◦ Counselor at middle school and high school level
◦ Worked with AVID for 14 years, training over 1000 administrators/educators
◦ College Counseling Professional for over 30 years: Helped start HECA
◦ Active in Professional organizations: HECA, IECA, NCAG, AICEP, WACAC, NACAC
◦ Youtube channel with interviews with over 100 professionals (new one added this week)
◦ Female Entrepreneur: started 1 consulting company, technology company
◦ Starting new company featuring online training for female entrepreneurs & educators
◦ Starting new podcast: All About Your Next Steps

3.
What are our choices?
• Bring Calm Amidst the Chaos
• Brene Brown- Unlocking US

4.
Take care of
yourself and
others
Eat Healthy.
Learn and share.
Continue with purpose and meaning.
Social distancing does not mean social isolation.
Increase feel-good activities.
Tune in to your feeling and feelings of others around you.
* From UCLA Vice Provost Office

5.
Helping Teens
Practice Practice Compassion
Stay in Stay in touch with professionals
Limit/monitor Limit/monitor exposure to news/social media
Connect Connect to learning
Focus Focus on facts, information
Sit Sit with Anxiety
Acknowledge Acknowledge validity of feelings
Listen Listen Actively
Maintain Maintain Normalcy
Model Model Calmness
From ADAA

6.
School
Resources
for Covid-19
Centers for
Disease
Control
US
Department
of Education
SAMHSA
Other
Organizations

7.
College
Resources
*NACAC
NACAC- frequent updates on fairs,
conferences and more
College campus closures
College Admissions
Process
New Online Tool
Standardized Testing
IB
AP testing
Study Abroad

8.
Virtual
Counseling
Virtual Tours: Using
YouVisit in
GuidedPath
Extended Virtual
Tours: check college
websites
Crowdsource a
Connection:
students are home,
reach out to them

9.
Virtual Counseling
◦ Add links to updates in your CUSTOM MENU
◦ Update TESTING as needed
◦ Use email to announce moving to a Virtual environment
◦ Use video conferencing tools:
◦ Skype
◦ Facetime
◦ Gotomeeting
◦ Zoom
◦ Other?
◦ Use assignments and appointments to manage counseling load
◦ Use calendars and schedulers to manage load

10.
Questions?
•support@guidedpath.net
GuidedPath?
•cyndy@cyndysmcdonald.com
•cyndy@cyndymcdonald.com
- coming soon!
Articles/Links?

11.
REMEMBER
SOCIAL
DISTANCING
DOESN’T MEAN
SOCIAL
DISCONNECTION