Fostering Success Everyday Group Counseling Model Paper

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Supporting Resiliency in Students Through the Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model
Christin Holmes
University of Central Arkansas

Supporting Resiliency in Students through the Achieving Success Everyday Group Model The article The Achieving Success Everyday Group Counseling Model: Fostering Resiliency in Middle School Students discusses a study that used the Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model as an intervention with middle school students. Developing resiliency characteristics was the focus during small group counseling sessions. The goal of the study was to improve academic and personal-social development of the students.

Group counseling can also be used for helping meet many student needs. A psycho-educational group counseling model helped students recognize learning styles, personal strengths, and communication skills (Brannigan, 2007). Group counseling has been used to support ethnic identity development (Holcomb-McCoy, 2005).
The ASE model was used to improve the self-esteem of ESL students in a previous study. Counselors helped the students discuss what self-esteem meant and how doing well in school is important (Shi & Steen, 2012). The global, at-home, and in-school features of self-esteem improved, while academic self-esteem and GPA did not improve. The ASE model was also used in another study to improve school dropout rates with eighth-grade students underperforming in the first quarter (Steen & Rose, 2014). Grades in English Language Arts and Math improved, as well as, attendance. There was no change in learning behavior or standardized test

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