Culturally Responsive School Counseling Summary

Lee, C. (2001). Culturally responsive school counselors and programs: Addressing the needs of all students. Professional School Counseling, 4, 163-171.

Courtland Lee, is a professor of counselor education at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is the author of this article. He addresses the developmental needs for students from diverse backgrounds and how this can be very challenging for the contemporary school counselor. Lee provides a data driven article and states that, “U.S. schools are becoming a social arena where children who represent truly diverse behavioral styles, attitudinal orientations, and value systems have been brought together with one goal-to prepare them for academic, career, and social success in the 21st Century.”

He has done various contributions to the field of psychology in terms of doing numerous research, publishing articles and authoring books in the field of psychology. It is evident that most of his books including Assessment for Counselors and Research and Evaluation in Counseling have played a major role in setting up standards of evaluating school counselors. In this book, Erford addresses some of the guidelines that ought to be strictly followed in the assessment for school counselors. He touches on the professional standards that schools and states ought to consider in their assessment and evaluation of their school counselors. Some of the specific standards that he presents in his book include the conduct of the counselor, the report from his or her supervisors, and the feedback from their

Annandale, Melissa Allen Heath, Brenda Dean, Ana Kemple and Yozo Takino are scholars in the field of psychology. Annandale is a Student Counseling and Psychological Services Officer at the University of Nevada, Heath is an Officer at the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education at Brigham Young University, Kemple and Takino are both school psychologists. In this journal, they provide the guidelines to assessing the cultural competencies that a school has in place for a crisis. The authors explain the different crises’ that might happen in schools and how the school counselors should respond to these