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Guidance and Counselling: School Counsellor Roles and Functions

School counsellors are key members of guidance and student services teams. Within the context of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team approach, school counsellors play a leadership role in the development and implementation of a comprehensive guidance and counselling program.

• Developmental Guidance: Counsellors develop, co-ordinate, and implement various developmental and preventive programs.
• Individual Planning: Counsellors participate, collaborate, and consult as members of the interdisciplinary team to provide support for students' individual planning.
• Responsive Services: Counsellors provide services to students in need through individual and small group guidance and counselling interventions, crisis intervention, parent out-reach, consultation, referral, and multi-systemic interventions.
• Systems Support: Counsellors perform various activities intended to support the school's guidance function. Examples include conducting workshops for parents and staff, student placement, research, data collection, community outreach, and program administration.

Counsellors are also in a key position to play a vital role in threat assessment teams, student support teams and safe school teams. They often also play an advocacy role for students with staff, families, and outside agencies.