Counselling Centre
Where is the Counselling Centre?
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True or False - It is expected that children between age 3-5 require adults' help in emotional management and social conflicts.
TRUE
True or False - It is beneficial and essential that adults go through all 7 steps of intervention during the problem-solving process.
TRUE!
If students want to use the self-referral service, there are two ways. What are these?
1. Filling out the self-referral form
2. Drop-in the counselling centre
Who can use the counselling service?
All students.
True or False - Children's SEL capacity grows within their age. Thus, a 10-year-old does not require an adult's help to resolve social conflicts.
FALSE. Although SEL capacities are growing, they are still developing and require adults' assistance for guidance both socially and emotionally.
When a student is emotional, what are the first two steps to do?
Stop, and provide calm-down strategies.
What are the self-referral timeslots?
(HINT: there are 3 time slots)
During their morning break and lunch break.
Students can come to the counselling centre through TWO ways. What are those?
1. Teacher referral
2. Self-referral
When do children normally start to spend time and energy predominantly on social interactions?
A) Preschool
B) Early Childhood
C) Middle Childhood
C)　Middle Childhood
Name 3 tips to help students calm down. (Could be your own strategies!)
- Drinking water
- Count down
- Breathing
- Quiet and comfortable calm-down space
- Sensory tools
Where can students find the 3 counselling mailboxes?
1. Library
2. Outside the nurse station
3. Outside the counselling centre
Name two activities/services the Counselling Centre provides.
Individual Counselling
Parent Workshops
In-class social-emotional guidance lesson
Well-being promoting activities
Why is it that when students are emotional, our constructive resolution might be ineffective?
Because students will use their primal response to deal with the situation, thus unable to process or generate rational thoughts. It is when they're calm that they can proceed to constructive conflict resolution.
Please demonstrate two ways of "Active Listening"
- Body language and tone
- Don't jump to the resolution too quickly. Focus on reflecting the feelings.
- If unsure, use open questions for clarification and additional information.
- Summarising and paraphrasing
- Acknowledge the feelings are valid
- Help offer a range of solutions when the timing is suitable.
Upon how many times of self-referral visits will the counsellors inform the class teacher?
3 times.
Name all the counsellors (HINT: 7 of them)
Chia-Chi, Shan-Ju, Isabelle, Shoiee, Yi-An, Lily, Weiwen
As 10-year-olds tend to be quite sensitive to any type of criticism, what could adults take heed of when conversing with them?
- Use the Sandwhich method when giving advice
- Listen to their concerns and use reassurance and encouragement to help problem solve.
Lemon and Lime have been close friends for 6 years. One day, a new student, Peach, joined and Lemon started to get close with her. You noticed Lime has been more moody and more alone. Although the girls would invite Lime to their game, she did not want to join. Lime was emotional one day and came to you (the teacher) to complain about the girls.
Name 3 possible feelings that Lime experiences and one calm-down strategy you would provide.
Lime could have the feeling of:
Disappointment, scared, anger, sadness, loneliness, feeling of betrayal
How will the students be informed of their self-referral appointment?
Counsellor will give the student an invitation card with the appointment time/date.