Praxis 2 School Counseling 5422 Exam Guide Graded A 2024

Which of the following is listed as one of the mindsets in the ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies assessment? - Promotion and enhancement of student academic, career, and social/emotional outcomes Liam is an eighth-grade student who is struggling in his classes. When he meets with his middle school counselor, he tells the counselor that he does not know how to study and often forgets what assignments he needs to complete. Liam and the counselor determine an objective for their sessions together that will help Liam use time-management, organizational, and study skills to improve his grades. Which of the following ASCA Mindsets & Behavior standards contains this objective? - Behavior: Learning Strategies Which of the following best describes consultation services? - Information is gathered from experts about student needs, and information, opinions, and recommendations are provided to individuals who can support those needs. A school counseling team wants to decrease the number of students with two or more failing grades from 50 students in the first semester of the year to 45 students in the second semester. Which of the following services correctly describes a collaborative indirect approach that would support the department's goal? - Partnering with families, teachers, and administrators on a school counseling advisory council in order to elicit feedback on the goal According to the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors, to ensure optimal professional effectiveness and competency, school counselors are expected to do which of the following? - Monitor their emotional and physical health and practice wellness A school counselor is asked by the administration to coach the school's volleyball team. Several students on the team are also on the school counselor's caseload. If the school counselor chooses to accept the coaching position, which of the following is the most appropriate action to take? - Obtaining informed consent, consultation, and supervision, and documenting the nature of the interactions that extend the boundaries of the counseling relationship A few high school students hang posters to protest a new school policy. The policy states that the school cannot plan field trips until standardized test scores improve. The principal hears about the posters and decides that the students who hung the posters will receive in-school suspension because "they have no right to protest a school policy." The school counselor advocates that the students do have the constitutional right to free speech at school. The counselor can argue this based on which of the following court cases? - Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)