9.14: Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services
School counselors, psychologists, and social workers can play a pivotal role in addressing the needs of individual students and their families, as well as supporting the social-emotional climate of the school as a whole. They can help identify areas of improvement for the school, and support SEL with specific lessons or elective classes, or by guiding student clubs. Family engagement can be included with workshops outside of school hours (CDC Healthy Schools, 2021). It is becoming increasingly apparent that adolescents can benefit from stress management skill development. Interventions that use yoga, mindfulness, and emotional regulation techniques can help students manage stress, and improve their mental health as well as academic performance. And employees can benefit from yoga and mindfulness interventions as well (Hawkins et al., 2023).