Classroom Counseling

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This paper examines how by using basic counseling techniques within the classroom, educators can help to increase the school's atmosphere of peace and understanding, which will help students learn not only the content of coursework, but also about effective human interaction and problem solving. It shows how behavioral therapy and person-centered therapy out of all the theoretical approaches to counseling, can be most directly applied to classroom management. Behavioral therapy is essentially a consistent use of reward to reinforce desired behaviors and person-centered therapy is a relationship-focused intervention that emphasizes authenticity and understanding. It analyzes how by combining these two approaches in interactions with students, educators can not only improve classroom behavior, but also generate a sense of fairness and cooperation in the classroom.

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"Behaviorism has been applied to the classroom setting, and may be done so with varying degrees of efficacy. Consistency of reinforcement will help ensure its usefulness. Although a great deal of evidence suggests that behaviorism is effective in producing behavior change, it is important to understand that certain aspects of the theory are inappropriate for the classroom. Few educators would desire to view their students as biological machines without internal emotional worlds, as behavioral theory advocates (Rogers, 1992). Few educators would systematically manipulate students' behavior without reference to their best interest or well-being, as operant conditioning research sometimes did (Rogers, 1995)."

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