Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1177/2156759x241234904
Dana Griffin, Sam Steen, Regina McCullough
In this article, we contextualize Black racial identity in the current sociopolitical context, and present and discuss a group counseling intervention using poetry as the medium to explore issues that foster a positive sense of racial identity in Black girls. We used the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory as a framework to unpack the group counseling lessons, which are presented in detail. We also discuss implications for school counselor practice, preparation, and research.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1177/2156759x241234905
Daniel Dosal-Terminel, Mia Kim Chang, Hannah Carter, A. J. Jiang, Adrianne Robertson, E. Mason
In this qualitative study, 10 White school counselors were interviewed after they completed a 7-week affinity group designed to address their racial identity development, cultural humility, and antiracist school counseling practice. We conducted two semistructured interviews with each participant and analyzed them using interpretive phenomenological analysis. The analysis revealed five group experiential themes: (a) motivation for joining the affinity group, (b) affinity group experiences, (c) outcomes from the affinity group, (d) antiracism’s influence on identity, and (e) antiracist school counseling practice. We discuss implications for the school counselor preparation, induction, and practice.
{"title":"A Pilot Implementation of Affinity Groups for White School Counselors and Its Impact on Antiracist Practice: The Experiences of Group Members","authors":"Daniel Dosal-Terminel, Mia Kim Chang, Hannah Carter, A. J. Jiang, Adrianne Robertson, E. Mason","doi":"10.1177/2156759x241234905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759x241234905","url":null,"abstract":"In this qualitative study, 10 White school counselors were interviewed after they completed a 7-week affinity group designed to address their racial identity development, cultural humility, and antiracist school counseling practice. We conducted two semistructured interviews with each participant and analyzed them using interpretive phenomenological analysis. The analysis revealed five group experiential themes: (a) motivation for joining the affinity group, (b) affinity group experiences, (c) outcomes from the affinity group, (d) antiracism’s influence on identity, and (e) antiracist school counseling practice. We discuss implications for the school counselor preparation, induction, and practice.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"237 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140469152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.1177/2156759x231225237
Jeanne Novak, J. P. Oehrtman, Meg Vostal
This study surveyed 225 school counselors to investigate the college and career readiness (CCR) supports they provide, with a focus on whether these supports vary based on students’ disability status. The results reveal that school counselors deliver CCR supports related to resource coordination, life-readiness instruction, and career assessment and planning services more frequently than supports for entering employment and college. Moreover, school counselors reported providing a greater number and frequency of CCR supports to students without disabilities compared to those with disabilities across all CCR domains and offered explanations for these differences. These results suggest a need for better preparation of school counselors to support the college and career readiness of students with disabilities.
{"title":"School Counselors’ Role in Supporting College and Career Readiness: Does Disability Status Matter?","authors":"Jeanne Novak, J. P. Oehrtman, Meg Vostal","doi":"10.1177/2156759x231225237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759x231225237","url":null,"abstract":"This study surveyed 225 school counselors to investigate the college and career readiness (CCR) supports they provide, with a focus on whether these supports vary based on students’ disability status. The results reveal that school counselors deliver CCR supports related to resource coordination, life-readiness instruction, and career assessment and planning services more frequently than supports for entering employment and college. Moreover, school counselors reported providing a greater number and frequency of CCR supports to students without disabilities compared to those with disabilities across all CCR domains and offered explanations for these differences. These results suggest a need for better preparation of school counselors to support the college and career readiness of students with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139622309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1177/2156759x231225219
Haley R. Ault, Kody Sexton, Melinda M. Gibbons, Mary K. Wynn, Robert A. Lange
Rural Appalachia encompasses a region of the United States represented by unique cultural strengths and systemic challenges. To meet their students’ career and college needs, school counselors working in rural Appalachia must understand the cultural nuances of the region. Consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology revealed five domains and 20 categories describing how rural Appalachian high school counselors address career and college readiness. We provide implications for career and college programming for use by high school counselors in rural Appalachia.
{"title":"Career and College Readiness Programming of Rural Appalachian School Counselors: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study","authors":"Haley R. Ault, Kody Sexton, Melinda M. Gibbons, Mary K. Wynn, Robert A. Lange","doi":"10.1177/2156759x231225219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759x231225219","url":null,"abstract":"Rural Appalachia encompasses a region of the United States represented by unique cultural strengths and systemic challenges. To meet their students’ career and college needs, school counselors working in rural Appalachia must understand the cultural nuances of the region. Consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology revealed five domains and 20 categories describing how rural Appalachian high school counselors address career and college readiness. We provide implications for career and college programming for use by high school counselors in rural Appalachia.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"38 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139385060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/2156759x231202484
Ami C. Waller, Erica S. Rascoe
Considering the increased number of students impacted by homelessness and the overrepresentation of people of color among the homeless population, feeling adept in meeting the unique needs of this student population is critical for school counselors. We address findings from a qualitative study exploring the challenges and cultural responsiveness of school counselors supporting students experiencing homelessness. Three themes and two subthemes emerged from the study and are addressed in detail.
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This study describes and provides preliminary support for the use of a culturally and linguistically adapted Strong Kids curriculum, delivered completely online, to address English language learners' (ELLs') social/emotional development. Quantitative data showed an increase in students' social/emotional knowledge in internalizing symptoms by the end of the program. Qualitative data highlighted ELL students' increased ability to identify and manage emotions, their application of social/emotional learning and mindfulness concepts in the virtual classroom, and the benefits of participating in the program virtually. We discuss the findings and implications for school counselors and other mental health providers in both school and community settings.
{"title":"Adapted <i>Strong Kids</i> Curriculum for English Language Learners During COVID-19.","authors":"Qi Shi, Karen Phillips, Desvan Moody, Thania Cordova","doi":"10.1177/2156759X231160752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X231160752","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study describes and provides preliminary support for the use of a culturally and linguistically adapted <i>Strong Kids</i> curriculum, delivered completely online, to address English language learners' (ELLs') social/emotional development. Quantitative data showed an increase in students' social/emotional knowledge in internalizing symptoms by the end of the program. Qualitative data highlighted ELL students' increased ability to identify and manage emotions, their application of social/emotional learning and mindfulness concepts in the virtual classroom, and the benefits of participating in the program virtually. We discuss the findings and implications for school counselors and other mental health providers in both school and community settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"27 1a","pages":"2156759X231160752"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018247/pdf/10.1177_2156759X231160752.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9155533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/2156759X231160721
Carey Dimmitt, Natalie A. Edirmanasinghe, Brett Zyromski
Evidence-based school counseling (EBSC)—and any useful way of organizing or thinking about professional practice—is constantly shaped by and in relationship with social and historical contexts. We are in a time of rapid cultural and educational upheaval, with ongoing calls for impactful systems-level social justice and antiracist school counseling (Holcomb-McCoy, 2022; Stickl Haugen, et al., 2022), with a youth mental health crisis (Office of the Surgeon General, 2021), and with a dire need for more school counselors in most parts of the country (Prothero, & Riser-Kositsky, 2022). How can EBSC continue to evolve to be most relevant and useful in these times? This special edition of Professional School Counselor, which consists of articles derived from the 2022 Evidence-based School Counseling Conference (EBSCC, ebscc.org), answers this question.
{"title":"Continual Evolution in Evidence-Based School Counseling: Proceedings From the 2022 Conference","authors":"Carey Dimmitt, Natalie A. Edirmanasinghe, Brett Zyromski","doi":"10.1177/2156759X231160721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X231160721","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based school counseling (EBSC)—and any useful way of organizing or thinking about professional practice—is constantly shaped by and in relationship with social and historical contexts. We are in a time of rapid cultural and educational upheaval, with ongoing calls for impactful systems-level social justice and antiracist school counseling (Holcomb-McCoy, 2022; Stickl Haugen, et al., 2022), with a youth mental health crisis (Office of the Surgeon General, 2021), and with a dire need for more school counselors in most parts of the country (Prothero, & Riser-Kositsky, 2022). How can EBSC continue to evolve to be most relevant and useful in these times? This special edition of Professional School Counselor, which consists of articles derived from the 2022 Evidence-based School Counseling Conference (EBSCC, ebscc.org), answers this question.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76588353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1177/2156759X231160717
Julia V. Taylor, Faith Zabek, Jen Koide, Aloise D. Phelps, Kathryn L. Zeanah, Michael D. Lyons
Telementoring is a low-cost, flexible way for school mental health professionals to access professional learning. Using a mixed-methods intervention design, we examined the impact of prolonged telementoring on school mental health professionals’ (school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and others) understanding and application of evidence-based school counseling, including associations between their use of evidence-based, culturally responsive, and collaborative practices to support student mental health. Our findings demonstrate support for the use of telementoring to improve school mental health professionals’ understanding and application of the evidence-based school counseling model. We provide specific considerations for school counseling professionals.
{"title":"Utilizing a Telementoring Model to Promote the Evidence-Based School Counseling Model","authors":"Julia V. Taylor, Faith Zabek, Jen Koide, Aloise D. Phelps, Kathryn L. Zeanah, Michael D. Lyons","doi":"10.1177/2156759X231160717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X231160717","url":null,"abstract":"Telementoring is a low-cost, flexible way for school mental health professionals to access professional learning. Using a mixed-methods intervention design, we examined the impact of prolonged telementoring on school mental health professionals’ (school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and others) understanding and application of evidence-based school counseling, including associations between their use of evidence-based, culturally responsive, and collaborative practices to support student mental health. Our findings demonstrate support for the use of telementoring to improve school mental health professionals’ understanding and application of the evidence-based school counseling model. We provide specific considerations for school counseling professionals.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89534859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-25DOI: 10.1177/2156759X231160722
Nadiya Boyce-Rosen, Melissa Mecadon-Mann
The practice of using microaffirmations enables positive outcomes through small acts of active listening that encourage feelings of inclusion and shared cultural intimacy. Microaffirmations can be intersectional and are beneficial to a wide range of populations, including people of color, LGBTQIA + individuals, and people with disabilities. School counselors are trained and positioned to have knowledge of practical, evidence-based interventions to help school communities process the negative impacts of microaggressions and daily racism. This article describes the benefits of implementing microaffirmations in school settings and proposes a layered framework for implementation within school communities. We discuss recommendations for training faculty and staff on using microaffirmations and implications for school counselor practice. We also address the importance of using evidence-based school counseling practices as part of framework implementation.
{"title":"Microaffirmations: Small Gestures Toward Equity and Advocacy","authors":"Nadiya Boyce-Rosen, Melissa Mecadon-Mann","doi":"10.1177/2156759X231160722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X231160722","url":null,"abstract":"The practice of using microaffirmations enables positive outcomes through small acts of active listening that encourage feelings of inclusion and shared cultural intimacy. Microaffirmations can be intersectional and are beneficial to a wide range of populations, including people of color, LGBTQIA + individuals, and people with disabilities. School counselors are trained and positioned to have knowledge of practical, evidence-based interventions to help school communities process the negative impacts of microaggressions and daily racism. This article describes the benefits of implementing microaffirmations in school settings and proposes a layered framework for implementation within school communities. We discuss recommendations for training faculty and staff on using microaffirmations and implications for school counselor practice. We also address the importance of using evidence-based school counseling practices as part of framework implementation.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81075642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1177/2156759X231160715
J. Beasley, Kara P. Ieva, S. Steen
Postpandemic culture has provided educators the opportunity to rebuild and reclaim the education system from its very foundation. Pioneering researchers in school counseling have begun reexamining what antiracist school counseling programs look like and providing school counselors practical recommendations for addressing racism and dismantling racist policies and procedures in their schools. This article disseminates findings from a quantitative research study that examined how school counselors are currently utilizing the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality in their implementation of small groups in their schools. The results indicated that about half (52%) of participants are implementing small-group counseling through this lens while the other half are not. Further results showed that, demographically, school counselors who identified as Black or African American are more likely to do this critical work. We discuss implications for practitioners as they explore their own racial identity and battle racial inequities in schools.
{"title":"Reclaiming the System: Group Counseling Landscape in Schools","authors":"J. Beasley, Kara P. Ieva, S. Steen","doi":"10.1177/2156759X231160715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X231160715","url":null,"abstract":"Postpandemic culture has provided educators the opportunity to rebuild and reclaim the education system from its very foundation. Pioneering researchers in school counseling have begun reexamining what antiracist school counseling programs look like and providing school counselors practical recommendations for addressing racism and dismantling racist policies and procedures in their schools. This article disseminates findings from a quantitative research study that examined how school counselors are currently utilizing the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality in their implementation of small groups in their schools. The results indicated that about half (52%) of participants are implementing small-group counseling through this lens while the other half are not. Further results showed that, demographically, school counselors who identified as Black or African American are more likely to do this critical work. We discuss implications for practitioners as they explore their own racial identity and battle racial inequities in schools.","PeriodicalId":74580,"journal":{"name":"Professional school counseling","volume":"91 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89850554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}