Counseling and Psychology

With this new support from Penn GSE’s School and Mental Health Counseling program, she is transforming adult learners’ lives and charting a path toward becoming a Philadelphia school counselor.

In Chalkbeat, Laura Perna says that even though some students in Kensington see open-air drug use every day, strong school support systems and targeted interventions are helping them graduate from high school, highlighting how focused resources can make a difference in students’ educational journeys.

Professional Counseling student Truth Mjumbe built Recall Aid, an AI-powered memory-support platform inspired by his own experience with epilepsy, his grandfather’s dementia, and his father’s work preserving civil rights histories.

Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education Howard Stevenson and his brother Bryan, a civil rights attorney and author of the best-selling book Just Mercy, reflect on their Delaware childhood, their social justice work and how to make sense of these troubled times on WHYY's The Connection.

In EdSurge, Dean Katharine Strunk weighs in on a poll showing teachers are burnt out but still love their jobs.

On May 17, in the Palestra, Penn GSE commemorated the achievements of the roughly 700 master’s and doctoral graduates at this year’s Commencement ceremony.

Kandi Wiens says that burnout, especially in the workplace, “ultimately comes down to a misalignment, or sometimes referred to as a mismatch, between someone’s personality or temperament and the environment that they are in," and provides tips for addressing this problem.

Kandi Wiens says that resilient, successful people manage workplace stress by challenging negative assumptions, interrupting catastrophic thinking, and focusing on what is actually true in stressful situations rather than creating self-critical narratives.

Howard Stevenson shares his tool to help individuals, especially young people, cope with insults and threatening language while managing stress in divisive debates or tense situations.