Counselling in Asian Schools: A Decade Reviewed through an Ecological Lens

Information technology, clinical focus, and social changes are some of the key developments impacting the practice of counselling in Asian schools today. Using an ecological framework, this chapter reviews each of these areas to make sense of developments in Asian school counselling in the last decade, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia. The framework, comprised of four domains including Internal, External, Systems, and Personal, will be introduced at the beginning of the chapter. It provides the basis for the mapping and analysis of challenges and solutions within school counselling. This is followed by a brief review of how school counselling in Asia has been responding to changes in the information, communication, and technology arena. Trauma-informed care, bullying, mental health, and family counselling are selected for deeper analysis. Social changes, the movement of populations, sexual minorities, and social inequalities across the region are also discussed. This chapter makes a case for the importance of understanding the interactions between the domains in the framework. The appreciation of the dynamics between domains and careful examinations of school ecology generate insights that can inform counselling practice, policy changes, and service development in schools.

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School Counselling in East and South-East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

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