What does a counselor do?
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- Talks with student individuals and in groups
- Gains understanding of student through observation in the classroom
- Works with potentially "at-risk" students
- Helps student relate to others
- Promotes positive attitudes and values among students
- Actively listens to concerns of parents, teachers and peers in helping students
- Responds to identified concerns
- Provides follow-up prevention, remediation and crisis intervention services
- Helps people to make better use of community resources
- Uses test data to provide information about abilities, achievement, interests and needs
- Assists students in comping with psycho-social developmental issues
- Coordinates efforts with other school specialists
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