The content will focus on understanding a counselor's role and responsibilities in alignment with The Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs.

The Texas Education Code (TEC 33.003-33.007) specifies the duties of school counselors and outlines components of the school counseling program.

The school counselor shall work with the school faculty, and staff, students, parents, and the community to plan, implement, and evaluate a developmental guidance and counseling program. The school counselor shall design the program to include:

-a guidance curriculum to help students develop their full educational potential, including the student's interests and career objectives;
-a responsive services component to intervene on behalf of any student whose immediate personal concern or problems puts the student's continued educational, career, personal, or social development at risk;
-an individual planning system to guide a student as the student plans, monitors, and manages the student's own educational, career, personal, and social development; and
-system support to support the efforts of teachers, staff, parents, and other members of the community in promoting the educational, career, personal, and social development of students.

TEC 33.006 -The primary responsibility of a school counselor is to counsel students to fully develop each student's academic, career, personal, and social abilities.