Empowerment Groups for Academic Success: An Innovative Approach to Prevent High School Failure for At-Risk, Urban African

By F. Bemak, R. Chung, Linda A. Siroskey-Sabdo. 2005

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New Professional Roles and Advocacy Strategies for School Counselors: A Multicultural/Social Justice Perspective to Move Beyond the Nice Counselor Syndrome (2008, background): “…underpinnings that are linked to the academic achievement disparities that continue to exist in the United States, experts have increasingly directed attention to the new roles school counselors can play to proactively address these differences (Bemak, 2005; Bemak et al., 2005; Ming, 2006).”
A Positive Youth Development Model for Students Considered At-Risk (2007, background): “Such negative predictors include grade retention, chronic absenteeism, behavioural problems, elevated levels of delinquency, higher incidents of violent and aggressive behaviour, teenage pregnancy, greater degrees of psychological problems and educational and occupational expectations that are pessi”