The School Counselor’s Book of Amazing Discussion Jump-Starters

This resource is designed to help you energize student discussions on topics related to cutting-edge current trends and issues for students in upper elementary and middle schools. You will find it to be a great supplemental resource in your individual and small group counseling, and in your classroom guidance sessions. The scenarios contained in this book can be very useful simply as energizers and warm-ups to various guidance topics. However, they can also be effectively used to add depth and relevancy to your guidance lessons and counseling sessions. During the discussions encouraged by this book, students are encouraged to make various guidance topics more relevant and personal to their own situations. Such discussions motivate students to think more thoroughly and critically about different ways they could handle their own day-to-day challenges. As a result, young people add to their awareness of positive peer-acknowledged choices and solutions along with the motivation to try them.