Applying Trauma-Sensitive Practices in School Counseling
Interventions for Achieving Change

Applying Trauma-Sensitive Practices in School Counseling provides school counselors with the research, knowledge, and skills they need to implement interventions that will impact the academic, social, and emotional outcomes of traumatized students. This guidebook is for school counselors, especially those who work with students with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Readers will obtain background information about ACEs and the effects of chronic stress in childhood, trauma-informed programs for school counselors to lead school-wide, and tools and strategies for school counselors to implement in personal practice.

1: Introuduction Section 1:Understand the Impact of Childhood Trauma on Student Learning and Child Development 2. The ACES Study: Lasting Effects from Childhood Trauma 3. Neurobiology and Learning: How Trauma Changes the Developing Brain 4. Mental Health: What's Beneath the Symptoms 5. The Role of a Trauma-Sensitive School Counselor Section II: Develop Trauma-Sensitivity Schoolwide: Support ALL Students to Reach those with ACEs 6. Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Reframing the “Why” not the “How” 7. Schoolwide Programs that Align with Trauma-Sensitive Philosophy Section III:Implement School Counseling Strategies to Support Studentis with ACEs: The TSC Model 8. Developing TSC 9. Tiered Interventions: Putting it All Together 10. Self-Regulation: Developing Strategies Through Skill-Building Lessons 11. Creating Connectedness: Caring Matters 12. Conclusion: Next Steps for Counselor Leaders

Stacey Rawson, MA, is a practicing school counselor in eastern Washington and an adjunct instructor at Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington University. She has nearly a decade of experience counseling students with trauma and implementing tiered-intervention counseling programs. Stacey holds an MA in counseling from the University of San Diego and is a credentialed school counselor in both California and Washington.