Part I: Accountability. Transforming School Counseling for Systemic Change: To Close the Achievement Gap Between Minority Students and Children of Color. What Works: Outcome Research on School Counseling Program Initiatives and Interventions. Using School Achievement Data to Design "Best Practice" Interventions for Your School. Critical Ethical and Legal Issues for School Counselors. The Growing Debate: High Stakes Testing or Preparing Youth for Their Career Future? Part II: Meeting the Needs of All Children. Special Education and 504 Plans. Diversity Issues in the School Setting. Minority Gendered Youth (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Questioning Youth). Special Programs for Academically Disenfranchised Students (e.g., AVID, Upward Bound, and Gear Up). Impulsivity and Decision Making: Understanding the Research on Neurobiology and the Teenage Brain. Part III: Primary Prevention and Crisis Management in the Schools. Meeting the Growing Mental Health Issues of Children and Adolescents. Helping Youth Feel Better, Think Better and Relate Better: A Psychoeducational Model That Promotes Resiliency by Promoting Critical Life Skills. Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management: The Need for First Response Procedures. Dealing with Death, Grief and Loss in the School Setting. Compassion Fatigue: The Professional Liability of Caring Too Much in the School Community that Demands So Much.
