Deck 5: The Themes of Your CSCP: Leadership, Advocacy, Collaboration, and Systemic Change in a Comprehensive School Counseling Program

Question 1

Which of the following functions did The Education Trust (2009) elevate to the highest importance for successful school counseling (as defined by the National Center for Transforming School Counseling)?

A) Advocacy
B) Collaboration
C) Leadership
D) Coordination

Answer 1

Leadership

Question 2

Understanding leadership invites the understanding of informal and formal power structures. Informal power structures refer to:

A) organizational power.
B) interpersonal power.
C) relational power.
D) systemic power.

Answer 2

organizational power.

Question 3

Formal power structures refer to:

A) organizational power.
B) interpersonal power.
C) relational power.
D) systemic power.

Answer 3

interpersonal power.

Question 4

French and Raven's (1959) typology of power refers to Reward Power as:

A) the power to impose punishments or remove benefits, again as perceived by the follower.
B) when the follower perceives that the leader has the right to make the request and the follower has the obligation to comply.
C) the follower's admiration, liking, desire for approval, or identification with the leader, which prompts compliance.
D) the power to provide benefits perceived as valuable to the follower.

Question 5

Traditional leadership is the process of:

A) influencing the activities of an individual or a group in efforts toward goal achievement in a given situation.
B) the leader making a request and the follower complying.
C) mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.
D) a. and c.

Question 6

According to Bolman and Deal (1997), structural leadership involves:

A) technical mastery, strategizing for change and growth, and implementation.
B) expert power and legitimate power.
C) believing in people and communicating that belief, being visible and accessible, and empowering others.
D) a. and b.

Question 7

The frame of leadership with which school counselor are often most comfortable and the most skilled is:

A) structural leadership.
B) human Resource leadership.
C) political leadership.
D) transformative leadership.

Question 8

Shields (2003) argued that transformative leaders take a(n):

A) courageous approach to leadership.
B) engaged approach to leadership.
C) activist approach to leadership.
D) all of the above.

Question 9

A model of leadership where one person takes initiative for engaging in the change process, and she or he recruits others with similar vision and dedication to work together toward shared goals is referred to as:

A) distributed leadership.
B) participatory leadership.
C) program leadership.
D) systemic leadership.

Question 10

Distributed leadership views leadership as:

A) contextualized in the realization that multiple leaders exist in the schools.
B) leadership practices are 'stretched' across leaders.
C) a shared endeavor.
D) all of the above.

Question 11

Leaders arise from:

A) finding new ways to address old problems.
B) maintaining the status quo.
C) renegades who attract a lunatic following.
D) focusing on the short term.

Question 12

The American Counseling Association's Advocacy Competencies (J. Lewis, Arnold, House, & Toporek, 2003) illustrate that advocacy is not only acting on behalf of others but includes:

A) assertiveness.
B) collaboration.
C) empowerment.
D) hope.

Question 13

Goodman and West-Olatunji (2010) drew strong connections between the symptomology of trauma and the behaviors of students labeled as:

A) "academic achievement."
B) "academic underachievement."
C) "academic proficient."
D) "academic underserved."

Question 14

Collaboration is a process that relies heavily on effective skills in:

A) communication.
B) negotiation.
C) motivation.
D) all of the above.

Question 15

Which of the following is a likely strategy in response to the observation that schools and school counselors cannot function alone to meet the needs of all students?

A) Engaging the community.
B) Networking with colleagues.
C) Chairing school climate committees.
D) Presenting at conferences.

Question 16

Which of the following is not one of Bryan and Henry's (2012) seven steps necessary for collaborative problem solving?

A) Assessing needs and strengths
B) Leading collaborative problem solving
C) Creating a shared vision and plan
D) Evaluating and celebrating success

Question 17

Which of the following type of leadership must today's professional school counselors to assess their programs to determine if students are learning in all three domains and to improve their services to all students?

A) Structural Leadership
B) Political Leadership
C) Accountability Leadership
D) Participatory Leadership

Question 18

School counselor leadership, advocacy, and collaboration are important activities with which of the following partners/stakeholders?

A) Students
B) Parents
C) School Colleagues
D) All of the above

Question 19

Which of the following is the single biggest problem with out-of-balance clerical and administrative work?

A) Lack of support staff.
B) Time.
C) Knowledge and skills.
D) Confidence.

Question 20

Adelman and Taylor' (2002) argue that meeting the needs of our most vulnerable youth involves which of the following?

A) Coordinated school-community partnerships
B) Coordinated school-wide programming
C) Writing grants.
D) Attending professional development on working with at-risk students

Question 21

Identify and explain the four themes of the ASCA National Model and how they relate to the process of establishing and leading a comprehensive school counseling program.

Question 22

Explain the concepts of leadership, transformational leadership, participatory leadership, and distributed leadership, and how leadership relates to effective CSCP within schools.

Question 23

Explain the concepts of advocacy and how advocacy relates to social justice in the schools.

Question 24

Explain collaboration and identify a model of collaboration that brings school counselors into active leadership toward systemic change.

Question 25

Explain systemic change as necessary for social justice efforts and school climate improvement.

Question 26

Provide a rationale for the need to monitor achievement, equity, and access to resources using outcomes-research findings and best practices from professional literature.