The Key Components of Comprehensive Counseling.

1. The Components of Comprehensive Counseling
Created By: Shannon Zirpoli

2. What are four components of comprehensive counseling?
• Guidance Curriculum
• Individual Planning
• Responsive Services
• System Support

3. Comprehensive School Counseling includes:

4. Guidance Curriculum
• includes structured lessons implemented through classroom and group
activities for all grades. The purpose is to enhance awareness, skill
development and application needed for the following three development
areas:
• Personal/Social Development
• Academic Success
• Career Development

5. Individual Planning
• includes counseling to assist all students to plan, monitor, and manage their own
academic achievement as well as their personal and career development. Issues
addressed include the following:
• Personal and Social development of a healthy self- concept and student goal
development
• Academic which include study skills, knowledge of educational opportunities test
score data and lifelong learning
• Career knowledge of a career opportunities, knowledge of an education/ career
plan and possible occupational training

6. Responsive Services
• includes counseling or referral activities to meet the immediate needs
and concerns of students. Responsive services includes personal
counseling; crisis counseling; agency referral; consultation with
parents, teachers, and other professionals, support groups; and
problem solving. Issues addressed include the following:
• Personal/Social Problems- Relationships, Abuse and Grief/ Loss /Coping
• Academic- Absent/ Tardiness/ Truancy
• School and Classroom Conduct

7. System Support
• includes indirect guidance management activities that maintain and
enhance the total guidance program. Responsibilities in this
component include staff and community relations, special research
projects, committees, professional development, and student support

8. The Key Elements of the Annual Agreement
• The Annual Agreement is a management tool that outlines how each counselor will
use his/her time, specific responsibilities, reflects the school counseling program's
mission and program goals, and identifies areas for professional development. It is
created and signed within the first two months of the school year.
• It stipulates the counselor's caseload and duties of their of work. The percentage of
time aligns with the recommended use of time with 80% allocated to the delivery of
the school counseling program or there is a clear explanation in the narrative why it
does not. This document ensures formal discussion and agreement about what the
program will look like and how each counselor will be working.

9. Quality Comprehensive School Counseling Should Promote

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