Mission
The Guidance Services Department implements comprehensive developmental counseling programs at all educational levels. The programs are designed to help all students develop educational, social, career, and personal strengths, and to become responsible and productive citizens. School counselors help create and organize these programs, as well as provide appropriate counselor interventions.
Muscogee County School District's Counseling Program is developmental by design, focusing on needs, interest and issues related to the various stages of student growth. There are objectives, activities, and special services and expected outcomes, with emphasis on helping students learn more effectively and efficiently. Guidance counseling is an integral part of the total educational program. School counselors are employed in elementary, middle and high schools. Their work is differentiated by attention to age-specific developmental stages of growth and related interests, tasks and challenges. School counselors are human behavior and relationship specialists who organize their work around fundamental interventions. In a comprehensive developmental counseling program, school counselors organize their work schedules around the following basic interventions:
- Individual counseling
- Small group counseling
- Classroom guidance
- Consultation
- Coordination
To assure high quality practice, counselors are committed to continue professional growth and personal development. Most are active members of the Georgia School Counselors Association, the American School Counselors Association as well as state and local professional associations, which foster and promote school counseling.