This handbook examines policy research on school counseling across a wide range of countries
and offers guidelines for developing counseling research and practice standards worldwide. It
identifies the vital role of counseling in enhancing students' educational performance and
general wellbeing and explores effective methods for conducting policy research with
practical examples. Chapters present the current state of school-based counseling and policy
from various countries focusing on national and regional needs as well as opportunities for
collaboration between advocates and policymakers. By addressing gaps in policy knowledge and
counselor training the Handbook discusses both the diversity of prominent issues and the
universality of its major objectives.Topics featured in this handbook include: The use of
scoping reviews to document and synthesize current practices in school-based counseling.
Contemporary public policy on school-based counseling in Latin America.Policy capacity
building and school-based counseling in Eastern Southern Africa.Public policy policy research
and school counseling in Middle Eastern countries. Policy and policy research on school-based
counseling in the United Kingdom.Policy research on school-based counseling in the United
States.The International Handbook for Policy Research in School-Based Counseling is a must-have
resource for researchers graduate students clinicians and related professionals and
practitioners in child and school psychology educational policy and politics social work
psychotherapy and counseling as well as related disciplines.
