Beverley
I have back channelled you re a question about Telewest Blueyonder. Didn't
think it relevant to the list.
Best
Gerald
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From: Beverley Young <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 08 April 2003 18:00
Subject: Re: counselling young people
>Hi Susie
>
>I read your post with interest. I'm right at the end of my diploma and have
>had a placement in a secondary school. I also work as a teaching assistant
>in another secondary school. In both schools, amongst both staff and
student
>groups, the atmosphere is very pro-counselling. On numerous occasions I
have
>seen teenagers ask when they can come and have a chat when a counsellor has
>arrived for one of their peers.
>
>I take great pleasure in the way that counselling has been cultivated
within
>those schools - perhaps they should be used as a model :-) Unfortunately, I
>can't take any credit as both systems were set up long before my time.
>
>Best Wishes
>Beverley
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>> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:21:16 +0100
>> From: "s.macer" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: counselling young people
>>
>> Mo,
>>
>> Apart from being counselling student in training, I'm also a peripatetic
>> music teacher in a school that provides a counselling service for
>> pupils. The counsellor comes into school in response to a pupil having
>> anonymously marked an 'X' on a chart of her available times.
>>
>> Obviously my role is to teach not offer counselling to my pupils, but
>> working one to one in a boarding school creates a closer relationship
>> where they are more likely to quite unexpectedly splurge out all sorts
>> of things to me. I've never known any of them accept my tentative
>> suggestion that perhaps the school counsellor might be able to help them
>> though. Most have looked horrified and a few have reacted with total
>> derision by way of response.
>>
>> I think this may be partly due to their knowing that pupils who have
>> seriously infringed school rules have been 'made' to have counselling
>> with resultant feedback to fellow pupils that the woman is an 'old
>> dragon', and quite probably their fears about confidentiality or the
>> small possibly of another pupil spotting them coming or going from the
>> counselling room (even though it's located in the san) doesn't help
>> either.
>>
>> So I can only say that from my own teaching experiences that pupil
>> perception of the school counsellor is pretty poor.
>>
>> From my own perspective I'm always having to weigh up the 'duty of care'
>> as a teacher, plus being bound by BACP codes of ethics and practice as
>> to whether I'm able to keep what a pupil tells me confidential or
>> whether there is an obligation to report the matter.
>>
>> Kindest,
>> Suzie.
>>
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