The Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) Group Counseling Model Applied in Rural Schools: Implications for Future School Counselor Training and Practice

ABSTRACT

There is a critical need for school counselors to understand and support the unique needs of students in rural settings. The school counseling literature around rural school counseling is underdeveloped. In this training article, we describe a partnership between school counselor educators at two different universities to improve school counseling group leadership practice in rural schools using a small group counseling intervention. We include strategies used to prepare school counselors to implement the Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model with elementary students in a rural Appalachian community as a training framework. Implications for group leadership training and practice are provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Rural school counselor practice
• school counselor training
• culturally sustaining interventions
• small group counseling leadership

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Notes on contributors

Sam Steen

Sam Steen, Director of the Diversity Research Action Consortium and Division Director for CFCE, George Mason University.

Christine J. Schimmel

Christine J. Schimmel, School of Counseling and Wellbeing, West Virginia University.

Jennifer M. Melfie

Jennifer M. Melfie, now with Fairfax County Public Schools.

Anne M. Carro

Anne M. Carro, George Mason University. Correspondance concerning this article should be addressed to Sam Steen, Director of the Diversity Research Action Consortium and Division Director for CFCE, George Mason University, 4400 University Dr. 1H1, Krug Hall 202, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444. Research was conducted in West Virginia.