The Dream Team

Abstract

The main objective of this chapter is to explore the integral partnership between school counselors and classroom teachers when benefitting students with backgrounds faced with adversity. The role of communication in stabilizing students' supports and bolstering relationships between teachers and counselors is delineated, along with other counselor-related classroom concerns. Direct counselor support benefits students, but counselor support of teachers as a means of self-care practice secondarily supports students as well. Anecdotal evidence from the author's experience as an elementary classroom teacher helps to contextualize the understandings presented from the research literature.