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NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS

1- Academic Development: guide the school counseling program to implement strategies and activities to support and enable the student to experience academic success, maximize learning through commitment, produce high quality work, and be prepared for a full range of options and opportunities after high school. Skills addressed in this area include: decision making, problem solving and goal setting, critical thinking, logical reasoning and interpersonal communication.

2- Career Development: guide the school counseling program to implement strategies and activities to support and enable the student to develop a positive attitude toward work, and to develop the necessary skills to make a successful transition from school to the world of work, and from job to job across the life career span. Also, standards in this area help students to understand the relationship between success in school and the future success in the world of work. (SCANS, 1999; NOICC, 1989)

3- Personal / Social Development: guide the school counseling program to implement strategies and activities to support and maximize each student's personal growth and enhance the educational and career development of the student.