1. What is the vision of the type of counselor you want to be?
What role will you play in the system?
How do you plan on effecting change?
What model will you use?

2. Traditional role of counselors
Counseling paradigms that emphasized changing the individual primarily through individually focused interventions

3. Professional Counselor’s Roles Human Development Specialist Individual and systemic-ecological change agent
To maximize counseling effectiveness counselors need to recognize that the environment surrounding the client is as much of the “client” as the individual

4. Community Counseling model
A four quadrant model that addresses individual and systemic-ecological change in problem conceptualization and intervention

5. Five assumptions
People’s environment either nurture or limit their development
A multifaceted approach is most effective
Prevention is more efficient than remediation
Effective intervention must be sensitive and respectful of the multidimensional nature of human development
The C.C. model can be adapted to all settings

6. Direct and Indirect Services
Direct services: provide opportunities to develop new skills and understanding (target population)
Indirect services: address the settings that effect people’s well-being (environment)

7. Four quadrants
Direct client: Services that involve working with the student/client directly –counseling/guidance
Indirect client: Indirect services for the client
Consultation/advocacy collaboration (with family/teacher)
Direct Community: Services that involve working with the larger community
Parent education,preventive education
Indirect community: Services that indirectly effect the community- public policy, legislation

8. Client service
Direct client-programs that provide direct assistance to clients such as guidance/counseling, outreach
Indirect client- Programs that intervene in the environment of specific individuals or groups such as advocacy, consultation, collaboration, self help groups

9. Community service
Direct community-Community wide programs that provide direct experiences and are available to the population as a whole ( preventive education, classes in life planning, relaxation training, parenting, health promotions)
Indirect community-efforts to make the social environment more responsive to the needs of the population as a whole such as promoting systemic change and influencing pubic policy