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Chapter 13 - Charisse  ***Comprehensive Guidance and Support Services**

The many challenges that are faced by children cannot be ignored by educators. Indeed, there exist a magnitude of social and emotional factors that must be addressed in an effort to help children achieve. In addition, counseling services must be **proactive** and[| collaborative]. There is a need for every child to have an adult advocate. As this is not logistically possible for one counselor to achieve, counselors must then be able to work with teachers, administrators,parents, and be able to utilize resources within the community. Listed in the text are four areas in which the school counselor mut be adept: //**counseling,consulting, coordinating, and functioning as a specialist in certain areas of the curriculum.*//* In addition to assuming vital roles and working collaboratively, there must be a means by which implementations can be evaluated and altered as deemed necessary as the needs of the population changes and outcomes are realized. The [|ASCA National Model] for counseling clearly outlines the components of an informed evaluation. A collaborative counseling program with clear standards that is tailored to customize service to groups of and individual students should lend to achievement among all students.