Groom Observation Paper

In sessions Lissa did not utilized many Materials, however she did have little resources that where always available in her office for both herself and the kids. Some of her resources that I found interesting were her chocolate jar, eraser tray, her box of toys, her confidentiality sign, her drawer of snacks. Lissa’s chocolate jar was a school favorite in that everyone in the school knew about it and stopped in frequently for Chocolate teachers and staff included. Lissa explained to me that getting everyone to stop by the counselor’s office was the goal of having a chocolate jar and it worked very well. The chocolate would also be used as a kind of reward to the students for meeting with her after a session concluded. The rules were that the upper school 6-12th Grade are allowed to have a piece every other day. Similar to the Chocolate jar, was her eraser tray. This served basically the same purpose as the Chocolate jar except for it is mainly used for Lower school (Pre-k to 5th grade) because they are not allowed to receive candy in school on a regular basis from teachers and staff. Often utilized in her sessions was her box of toys. Lissa explained to me that she has a box of toys because often times if the students can play or manipulate something they will have a better time in expressing what they need to say and
In sessions students will often ask, will you tell anyone or you can’t tell my mom and so forth. When students have any such concerns about confidentiality the sign would serve as a great resource that she would just point to and say anything you say here stays in here unless you are being hurt, you want to hurt yourself or you want to hurt others which is what the nicely designed sign says. When students see this plastered on the wall and the way Lissa enforced it they automatically felt at ease and also later felt more comfortable to come back and see if they had other