{"id":32,"date":"2016-10-17T06:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T06:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/our-identity\/pastoral-care\/counselling-services\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:26:18","slug":"counselling-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/our-learner\/pastoral-care\/counselling-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Counselling Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College provides a free and confidential* counselling service which can be used by all students in Years 5-12. It is normal for all people to have worries or concerns from time to time and as part of the College&#8217;s commitment to wellbeing, we seek to provide students with the confidence and skills to deal with these worries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote\">\n<p>The College counsellors are available during school hours and strive to work with student&#8217;s worries before they become major problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The School Counsellors are available on an appointment basis, and students are encouraged to either make an appointment anonymously (on the Counsellor door) on email or in person.<\/p>\n<h4>Some of the common issues we support students with are:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Emotional issues (anger, anxiety, loneliness, depression).<\/li>\n<li>Behaviour at school.<\/li>\n<li>Behaviour at home.<\/li>\n<li>Making and keeping friends; friendship groups.<\/li>\n<li>Bullying.<\/li>\n<li>Family relationships (communication, trust, separation, divorce).<\/li>\n<li>Progress at school; changing schools, leaving school, exams, results.<\/li>\n<li>Loss and bereavement.<\/li>\n<li>Substance abuse, partying<\/li>\n<li>Physical changes of puberty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Counsellors pride themselves on providing a safe and approachable service and welcome all students and parents.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Confidentiality limited to \u2018risk of harm\u2019.\u00a0 If a student is at risk of harm\u00a0 (self or others), it is in the students best interests and the Counsellor\u2019s duty-of-care seek additional help including Principal and parents and other relevant services.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College provides a free and confidential* counselling service which can be used by all students in Years 5-12. It is normal for all people to have worries or concerns from time to time and as part of the College&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/our-learner\/pastoral-care\/counselling-services\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8526,"parent":28,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/9101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spc.nsw.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}