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Article: Assessing students for morality education: a new role for school counselors.
- Article from:
- Professional School Counseling
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Violence in schools needs to be ameliorated by corrective measures that include morality education. School counselors, by their training in dealing with problems of students and their families, are the best qualified to teach the importance of values. Assessment of morality and vignettes on morality are provided. Instruments to measure spirituality and religiousness are also discussed.
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Violence in the school has become an all too real tragedy. Alienation and lack of empathy in youth are factors strongly involved in the violent behavior of children and adolescents (Carlson, 2003; Rayburn & Richmond, 2001a; Raywid & Oshiyama, 2000; Sandhu, ...