Linking Contextual Psychotherapy With the School Environment

This article, and the one that follows (Slaten & Baskin, Contextual School Counseling: A framework for training with implications for curriculum, super-vision, practice, and future research), describe an approach to school coun-seling and an integrated new training framework, titled “Contextual School Counseling ” (CSC). CSC is an approach where the contextual perspective of psychotherapy is understood, relied upon, and applied to activities by a counselor within the school environment. The use of CSC will help school counselors to focus on vulnerable and diverse populations. Furthermore, it will add cohesion to an ever-evolving profession whose members are cur-rently trained in core counseling skills but would likely further benefit from an approach and training model with clearer links to the pre-K-12 context