Newcomer Post-Grad Preparation

Group counseling
Monica Gutierrez, Ada Sandoval, Jenny Carrillo, Ashley
Lopez, Sarahi Torres
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What is a Newcomer?
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Newcomer
✖ A newcomer is a student who is immigrating from
a different country to the United States
✖ They are often placed in special ed and English
Language courses due to their lack of English
✖ These students typically don’t test out of special
ed or EL courses
○ As a result, they don’t get a diploma if they do
graduate
■ This makes finding a job post-graduation
harder
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Counseling Techniques
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COUNSELING TECHNIQUES
✖ Teach clients to pay attention to what
they already know about themselves
✖ Make clients aware of how they constrict
their awareness of self
✖ Invite client to assume responsibility for
themselves
✖ Assist clients in redefining themselves
✖ Teach realistic goal setting
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Theoretical Methods
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EXISTENTIAL THEORY
✖ A form of Psychotherapy based on the
model of human nature and experience
developed by the existential tradition of
European philosophy. Focuses on
concepts that are universally applicable
to human existence including death,
freedom, responsibility, and the meaning
of life
 How Existential Theory Applies to Group counseling
✖ Goals:
○ An existential group can be described as
people making a commitment to LO8 a
lifelong journey of self-exploration with
these goals: (1) enabling members to become
honest with themselves, (2) widening their
perspectives on themselves and the world
around them, and (3) clarifying what gives
meaning to their present and future life
 How Existential Theory Applies to Group counseling
✖ Group Leader:
○ generally more of a participant-observer who
engages as an informed fellow traveler
○ engages in appropriate self-disclosure and
transparency, gives feedback, and shares his
or her reactions within the group
○ disclosures center on the members’ interests
rather than on the leader’s needs or interests
 How Existential Theory Applies to Group counseling
✖ Recurring universal themes evolve in many groups that challenge members to
seriously explore existential concerns such as the ability to choose a path in life,
freedom and anxiety, how to live a meaningful life in the face of the reality of
death, and how to establish authentic and mutual relationships
✖ The members are responsible for the way they behave in the group, and this
provides a mirror for how they are likely to act in the world
✖ A group can be instrumental in helping members see how some of the
self-constricting patterns they manifest in the group parallel patterns in their
everyday life
✖ Building on what members learn about their interpersonal functioning in the
group, they can take increased responsibility for making changes in everyday life
✖ Members can gradually discover ways in which they have lost their direction and
can begin to be more true to themselves
 Existential THeory Strengths and Weaknesses
✖ Strengths:
○ Universal and emphasizes
multicultural perspective
(commonalities in experiences)
✖ Weaknesses:
○ Highly focused on self-determination
(may not account for struggles people
face)
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ASCA Group Counseling Plan

ASCA GROUP Action Plan
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ASCA Group Lesson Plan
ASCA Group Lesson Plan (cont)
 Goals
✖ 50% of the students in grades 11th and
12th who identify as a newcomer student
will learn and create a roadmap/goal
setting by the end of the fall semester.
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Session Layout

Beginning Middle Ending

Sessions Sessions 5 & Sessions 7 &
1-4 6 8
 Session Overview
1. Intro, Pre-Test, overview
2. Intro to writing a roadmap and goal setting
3. Intro to post grad opportunities
4. Intro to job interview practice skills
5. Goal setting and prioritizing
6. Practice- Writing own roadmap and goals
7. Review of roadmaps and goal setting
8. Wrap-up, Post Test
 Pre-Test

https://www.princetonreview.com/quiz/career-quiz
 Activity
IceBreaker - Job Preparation Interview Questions
Activity Goal: Complete Career Roadmap

● Counselor will select students randomly using popsicle sticks.

● Students selected will be asked a series of interview questions, they will need
to answer at the best of their ability.
● Concluding the questions, the Counselor will provide feedback and give
additional tips and strategies and alternative career options that don’t require
a degree beyond a high school diploma
● Students will be given a blank roadmap, they will have 20 minutes to
complete the roadmap and will have the chance to share with group members.
● Group members will compare and contrast differences, similarities and
challenges and compile a list then will discuss amongst themselves how to
overcome setbacks.
Roadmap
Post-Test
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School Psychologist Perspective

 Myers Brigg Type Indicator (MBTI)
✖ Alternate assessment used for career
determination/planning
✖ Identifies psychological types to better
understand what career would work best
for individuals
✖ 16 personality types
✖ Measures 4 different categories
✖ World, Information, Decision, Structure
 MBTI Continued
✖ World: how you view it
○ Extraversion(E) or Introversion(I)
✖ Information: how you process/interpret
○ Sensing(S) or Intuition(N)
✖ Decisions: how you make them
○ Thinking(T) or Feeling(F)
✖ Structure: how you deal with the outside world
○ Judging(J) or Perceiving(P)
✖ Weakness: Not reliable
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HELPFUL APPS
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Dreamers Roadmap
Dreamers Roadmap is a free national mobile app that helps undocumented students find
scholarships to go to college.
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Memrise
A 3-step approach to learning that helps anyone acquire a new language like the first time

around: naturally.
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Thanks!
Any questions?
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References
✖ Corey, G. (2017). Theory and practice of counseling and
psychotherapy. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
✖ Myers, I. B. (n.d.). MBTI Basics.Retrieved December 16, 2020,
from
https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mb
ti-basics/
✖ State Superintendent Torlakson Announces 2018 Rates for
High School Graduation, Suspension and Chronic
Absenteeism. (n.d.). Retrieved December 02, 2020, from
https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr18/yr18rel76.asp