Counseling Services

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Posted November 15

The School Counseling Department at Boys’ Latin works from a strengths perspective, with the goal of empowering each student to achieve to the best of his ability. The Department strives to help each student discover his inner resilience and hopes to foster productive, independent and high functioning adults. The mission of the School Counseling Department is to recognize strengths, celebrate diversity, encourage positive choices, and to allow these gentlemen to achieve to their highest potential.

Please enjoy an overview of the dynamic School Counseling Department at the Boys’ Latin School of Maryland.

The School Counseling Department is active in every level of Boys’ Latin School.

In the Lower School, the School Counselor provides orientation training to all incoming students. This orientation includes social skills, tolerance, advocacy, and adjustment skills. The School Counselor also provides skill development to grade levels. This service delivery addresses issues such as: positive decision-making, positive communication, positive peer interaction, support programming for children with acute or ongoing psychosocial needs, and faculty support.

In the Middle School, the School Counselor provides a Middle School-wide Decision Making curriculum that includes Bully Prevention and Intervention, Substance Awareness training, and Wellness Training, with a stress on Positive Choices. The Peer Education Program allows Upper School students to interact with Middle School students in a role-model capacity.

In the Upper School, the School Counseling Department utilizes a speaker from Freedom From Chemical Dependency (FCD) to meet with tenth graders over a four day period. Click here to learn more about FCD, an international intervention and educational program that serves Boys’ Latin. The School Counseling Department is also proud to conduct the Peer Education Program. This program allows eleventh and twelfth graders to be empowered by delivering a decision-making curriculum to Middle School students. The Senior Retreat Program is also organized and executed by the School Counseling Department. This four-day experience focuses on introspection, personal development, and the transformation from adolescence to adulthood. The School Counselors also provide the Upper School with instruction via various programs throughout the school year, including: The Stephen Kaufman Project, John Badalament, MLK Speaker Series, etc.

Parent Education is another area addressed by the School Counseling department at Boys’ Latin. The department hosts a monthly online seminar, or webinar, that features a panel of experts in a topic that relates to parenting children and young people in today’s world. The webinars take place on the first Monday of each month in the Carolyn Smith Library from 8-9pm.

To view the webinar schedule for the 2007-2008 school year and to watch recordings of the live webinars that have been hosted at Boys’ Latin since the beginning of the academic year, click HERE

Raising a child in today’s world is increasingly difficult; education, preparation, and resiliency training are our best tools for placing our children in the best position possible for dealing with life’s challenges. Take time to look at the links above and below related to many of the challenges our children face.

Please contact the Department, at the number provided, with any questions, inquiries, or suggestions.