Professional Disclosure Statement

Stephanie Depinet, School Counseling Masters Student

Donnell Middle School
301 Baldwin Avenue
Findlay, Ohio 45840
Phone: 419-425-8370

Donnell Middle Schools Counseling Department provides counseling services in several areas
including individual and group counseling, career counseling, and academic counseling.

Individual and Group Counseling
The school counselor works together with the student and parents to help students develop the
necessary skills to become healthy, happy, and productive individuals. Services include
individual counseling, group counseling, classroom lessons, relationship building, and the
development of social skills. Assistance is offered as students encounter any of the many choices
and challenges that their individual life situations and growing up require them to meet. The
developmental level of each child is taken into consideration as assistance is offered. All students
are entitled to access to counseling services and may be referred by their parent, classroom
teacher or other school staff member, as well as by asking for counseling assistance for
themselves.

Academic/Educational/Career Counseling
The Counseling Department at Donnell Middle School provides assistance to students regarding
any academic concern. Consultation is available for school and test anxiety, time management,
assessing academic progress, learning styles, school assistance programs, and educational
development. Assistance is also available for students who need help with classroom behavior in
order to be successful in school. Career counseling includes exposure to the different career
pathways and career and interest exploration.

Confidentiality
Trust is important in any counseling situation and communication between counselor and student
and/or parent is confidential, except in those instances covered by law. Those situations might
include, but are not limited to threat of harm to another person or self or suspected child abuse or
neglect. Parents and guardians of minor children have certain privileges and can be entitled to
information about their minor children in a counseling relationship. Such information will
ethically be given only in helpful ways, in the interest of maintaining the counseling relationship,
and will be discussed with the student. In a school setting, it sometimes becomes necessary to
inform the students classroom teacher or an administrator of information about a student. This
will also be discussed with the student and will only be shared on a need to know and helpful
basis. Confidentiality is harder to maintain in group settings. However, the students will be
informed about confidentiality in developmentally appropriate ways when they join a group.
Typically, they are told they may share things about themselves that they shared in group, but not
about other people. Generally, parent permission is asked for when students attend groups where
family topics are discussed. In groups where school related topics are discussed, permission is
not necessary, however parents will be informed that their child is participating in a group.
Parents are informed of individual counseling of their child on a case by case basis, depending
on the seriousness of the issue their child is having and/or if informing their parent is determined
to be necessary in order to be helpful.

About Your Counselor
Stephanie Depinet, School Counseling Masters Student, is currently completing an internship to
become a Licensed School Counselor with plans to graduate from Heidelberg University in
December 2014. Classes completed include Human Growth and Development, Techniques in
Counseling, Theories in Counseling, Philosophy and History of Counseling, Group Processes in
Counseling, Assessment and Appraisal, Applied Research and Quantitative Methods, Career
Planning and Vocational Guidance, Professional Issues in Counseling: Legal and Ethical, Social
Foundations in Cross-Cultural Counseling, Elementary and Middle School Counseling,
Organization and Administration of School Guidance, and Counseling Children and Adolescents.
Under supervision, Mrs. Depinet will serve as a School Counselor Intern for Donnell Middle
School.

Counseling Fees
All services are free to faculty, staff, students and parents at Donnell Middle School. Please
contact Stephanie Depinet regarding any questions you may have regarding the counseling
service available.

If you have complaints about professional services from a counselor, contact the Ohio School
Counselor Board at:
PO Box 1445, Dublin, OH 43017
osca@ohioschoolcounselor.org
(866) 230-1042 (Messaging Service)