Counseling Services Info

Middle School counselors are experienced in working with early adolescents as they deal with important decisions in their preteen and early teen years. Counselors assist students in achieving a positive and successful school experience.

If you need additional information, please call your child’s counselor at 908-273-1190.

Common Counseling Topics
What does counseling provide?

Common Counseling Topics

helping students make decisions about friends, relationships or other concerns
helping students develop positive self-esteem
helping students cope with the many challenges and personal problems they face on a day-to-day basis
helping students choose courses and levels to enhance their educational progress
motivating students by counseling and providing tips on study skills and organization
exploring career options

What does counseling provide?

When students reach the middle school years, they are often in the process of developing their own independent identity. This usually causes them to stop talking openly with their parents; they may even become rude and obnoxious to those who love them the most.

As counselors, we have the opportunity of working with these middle school students when they are in their more mature selves. We are in a position to help them explore appropriate choices for the decisions they must make. While we provide students with a confidential setting, we do consider the importance of keeping parents up-to-date on all important issues—we find a way to maintain the student’s trust while we work with parents.

Students and their parents are invited to contact counselors about:

Academic Concerns

Family Issues

Personal Problems

Additional Counseling Services

Group Counseling

Each year, counselors address selected concerns initiated by students participating in counseling groups. Areas in which group counseling has been provided include:

building self-esteem
underachievement
children in families affected by separation/divorce
students at-risk of serious school problems or failure
assertiveness
students in homes affected by addiction/alcoholism

Whatever the situation, the counselor will work with the student and family to help them sort out what is going on, how they feel about it, and what they might do to make things better.

Parent Involvement

A student’s middle school years are a time when close contact between home and school is vitally important and counselors serve as a liaison to facilitate communication. Parents are encouraged to keep counselors informed of important issues at home that might affect their child’s performance. Often the counselor can help a student cope with stressors that may negatively impact their performance and success in middle school. In addition, the counselor can share important information with teachers in a way that respects family privacy and, at the same time, enables teachers to provide a supportive environment for the student.

counselors' daily involvement

Present 6th grade Parent Orientation
Offer orientation groups for 6th graders and all students new to the school
Prepare student schedules
Facilitate Parent/Team conferences, when necessary
Monitor student academic progress
Collaborate with school administrators regarding student issues
Provide information, support and serve as a resource for teachers
Provide classroom guidance experiences
Interface with community groups and agencies to help better serve our students
Develop and coordinate grade level
Advisory lessons and activities
Introduce career explorations in 8th grade
Provide transition counseling and programs for students

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