• Kendra Morgan

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Welcome to Blue Eye Schools!  I am Kendra Morgan, your school counselor. 

Through weekly classroom guidance classes, and as needed individual and small group meetings, students will participate in activities to:

• Help children understand themselves and others

• Help provide career education activities

• Help children understand the school environment

• Help children understand attitudes and behaviors

• Help children gain interpersonal and communication skills

• Help children learn problem solving and decision making skills

• Help develop community pride and involvement

• Help develop school success skills

In guidance classes we will work together to learn about a variety of topics including bullying, coping strategies, being drug free, study skills, and decision making skills.

The Counselor is someone children can talk to when they feel…Angry, Confused, Worried, Frightened, Sad, Lonely, Happy, Proud

The Counselor works with parents to...

• Help them understand test results

• Help them understand child's personal growth and development

• Help them understand their child's strengths and weaknesses

• Help them understand their child's feelings

• Help them understand their child's behavior

• Help them understand their child's needs

The Counselor and Teachers work together to help students…

• Develop academically and socially

• Learn about the world of work

• The Counselor works with…Community Agencies

• Community agencies

• Mental Health Agencies

• Children's Division

Some Helpful web sites…

• Positive Parenting Strategies

• Stress Management

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Facts for Families)

• Pet Loss

• Bullies

Play Therapy is a form of counseling or psychotherapy that uses play to communicate with and help people, especially children, to prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. This is thought to help them towards better social integration,growth and development.

Children's play can be more fully appreciated when recognized as their natural medium of communication. Children express themselves more fully and more directly through self-initiated, spontaneous play than the do verbally because they are more comfortable with play. For children to "play out" their experiences and feelings is the most natural dynamic and self-healing process in which they can engage.

Play is to the child what verbalization is to the adult. It is a medium for expressing feelings,exploring relationships, and self-fulfillment. Given the opportunity, children will play out their feelings and needs in a manner or process of expression that is similar to that for adults.

When viewed form this perspective, toys are used like words by children, and play is their language.

Children may have considerable difficulty in trying to tell what they feel or how they have been affected by what they have have experienced; but,if permitted, in the presence of a caring, sensitive, and empathic adult, they will show what they feel through the toys and materials the choose, what they do with and to the materials, and the story acted out.