The goal of the book Counseling Skills for Educators is to help familiarize teachers with the basic methodology of counseling skills to create and maintain stable relationships with children and provide support.

Specifically: (1) it examines the various roles teachers play in children's school lives, (2) it describes the most important elements of each support strategy, (3) it provides basic information about children's emotional and academic difficulties, (4) it analyzes skills for listening, responding to emotions and the content of speech, setting goals, and developing an action plan within the school curriculum and school life, (5) it offers examples of conducting effective counseling sessions with children and parents, (6) it explores ways teachers can seek support and collaborate with other specialists and professionals for the benefit of children, and (7) it describes ways in which counseling skills promote teachers' personal development.