The Guidance Department at Bolivar Middle School is committed to helping students reach their full academic potential. Counselors work with parents, teachers, and administrators to help students adjust and succeed in middle school and beyond. Counselors welcome students who seek help on their own, as well as those students who are referred. The students can sign up for appointments in the guidance office. Counselors are available for drop-in meetings with students before and after school hours. Students can also request an appointment by signing up on the counselor's appointment sheet located in the Guidance Department.

Counselors go into the classrooms for group guidance sessions covering orientation, school procedures, test preparation, career exploration, and scheduling procedures. Counselors work with the 8th graders and their parents on the four-year high school plans.

Conferences with the teachers can be arranged through the guidance office. This can be with an individual teacher or with the team of teachers during the teachers' planning time. If students or parents have any questions or comments, please call Mr. McKinnie or Mrs. Young at 731-658-4563.

COUNSELING SITES

Psychology Sites:

Kids Psych has developed a great page that helps children understand themselves and others.

School Psychology Resources has information on all types of parental concerns.

Help Eliminate Violence:

About answers questions on how to talk to your children.

The site “Out on a Limb” is an interactive site for children to help children learn how to get along.

How Therapy Helps.

American Association of Child Psychology has a selection of sites to help in times of disaster.

Warning Signs of Teen Violence is a guide from the American Psychology Association and MTV to help youth recognize the warning signs of violent behavior.

Youth Violence is a simplistic answer to a complex problem.

Keys to Healthy Relationships.

What Makes Kids CARE? This article explains how to teach gentleness in a violent world.

What is the nature and motivation of hate crimes?

Help is here for teenagers who are experiencing abuse and violence in their relationships.

Help with Special Needs Children:

Internet Resources for Special Children is a web site dedicated to children with disabilities of all types. Down Syndrome, Speech disorders, mental retardation and many more sets of links to support people that help children with these disabilities.

Diagnosing Autism Early If researchers can learn how to diagnose autism early, they may be able to design interventions that detail the disorder before it develops.

You Can Handle Them All provides help with all the different discipline problems you are asked to handle in the classroom.

Substance Abuse:

Substance Abuse Education is a very informative site from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Friends of Narconon is a very informative site to help find out the truth about drugs and how to help children make drug-free choices.

Is smoking in your genes?

Managing Stress:

Despite believing in active approaches to sibling conflict, when squabbling starts, most parents do not intervene.

Our links to dealing with tragedy may help explain difficult situations in the world today.

Listed here are interventions that work for stepfamilies.

Read the parent’s guide for assisting teens through trauma and loss.