New Mexico Comprehensive School Counseling Program Guide

Counselor Skills
Leadership | Advocacy | Collaboration | Systemic Change

Leadership

The Ethical Standards for Professional School Counselors was designed and specifies principles of ethical behavior necessary to regulate and maintain the high standards of integrity, leadership and professionalism among its members.

Leadership is crucial in supporting services in an ethical and legal manner. Counselors must be willing to lead by example, not only by following ethical and legal foundations, but by taking a lead role in supporting student success and removing any barriers to that success. Students would be at risk if the Counselor was taking a back seat and only following the status quo. Counselors have an ethical and legal obligation to educate themselves as well as others on the legal and ethical standards set. They must collaborate with other professionals in the school and community in order to influence system wide change and implement school reform within those ethical and legal obligations. Counselors have a unique duty and responsibility to build a sense of community within the school which they serve. It is this type of leadership and collaboration that will serve as the platform from which they will be able to advocate for every student and remove barriers that impede student success.

 

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