Changed Impressions

After the reading assignment my opinion of what the role of the guidance counselor hasn't changed that much, although I did find interesting the history of counseling and how it got started. It was interesting to see that it some of the early foundations of the modern counselor can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and the middle age Catholic priests. It was also interesting to read that counseling was used in the late 1800's and early 1900's to help people escape poverty, and that the military used counseling to assess draftees to position them in a correct role.
The role of the counselor has changed throughout the decades, but the one thing that seems to remain constant is the work they do with evaluation. Whether they are busy with CRCT, SAT, ACT, ASVAB or graduation tests, they spend much of their time with evaluation or assesments. I had always thought that guidance counselers was to help students to figure what kind of college or career that they were interrested in, but I was un-aware of the amount of assesment that they are involved in in helping the students make the decisions.