•Counselling is effective as an early intervention.
Counselling enables children and young people to gain a better understanding of themselves and situations, as well as developing strategies to manage change.
Counselling is effective as an early intervention and preventive strategy in the management of stress levels and the mental health of children with emotional and behavioural problems. Counselling is a process which assists the individual client to focus on their particular concerns, while simultaneously addressing and exploring specific problems, making choices, managing crises, working through feelings of inner conflict and improving relationships with others.
Counselling enables children and young people to gain a better understanding of themselves and situations, as well as developing strategies to manage change.
Counselling can:
Provide time to share problems and concerns in a non-judgmental setting with a trained Counsellor.
Offer confidentiality, which may lead to the release of long suppressed information that may be causing distress.
Help defuse conflict situations and prevent escalation of incidents at school and at home.
To discuss the Schools Counselling Service in more detail and to describe how it would operate on a practical level in your school or extended schools programme.
