SSRScientific and Social Research2661-43322981-9946Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/ssr.v7i10.12735ArticleThe Current Challenges and Strengthening Strategies of Ideological and Political Leadership Capacity of College Counselorshttps://artdesignp.com/journal/SSR/7/10/10.26689/ssr.v7i10.12735ZhouLingbin20257102025-10-29Ideological and political leadership is the primary content and inherent requirement of building an educational power. College counselors are the backbone force for the construction of an educational power, and it is necessary to effectively strengthen the forging and improvement of their ideological and political leadership. Ideological and political leadership essentially represents an influence and shaping power, including political leadership that can unite students’ emotional identification, influence their political and ideological identification, ideological guidance that can respond to students’ theoretical confusion and enhance their theoretical confidence, value shaping that can stimulate students’ thoughts and emotions and evoke their higher-level motivations, and action incentive that can lead students to unite and strive and guide them to serve the country and build the nation. Currently, there are practical difficulties in college counselors’ ideological and political leadership, such as traditional content and methods of leadership, loose ways and methods of leadership, weak leadership ability and level, and inefficient exploration and utilization of leadership resources. It is necessary to comprehensively enhance the ideological and political leadership of college counselors in terms of doing things, borrowing wisdom, leveraging resources, and taking advantage of opportunities.

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