Faculty and Staff Attitudes towards Student Counseling Center and Its Services

Marwa Alrajhi,Suad Lawati

doi:10.15344/2455-3867/2018/144

Abstract

This study aimed to examine attitudes of staff and faculty members towards the Student Counseling Center and its services. The sample included 224 faculty and staff members from different colleges and different years of experiences. The authors have developed a self-report, four point Likert scale questionnaire to evaluate the participants' attitudes. The findings showed high positive overall attitude towards the counseling center and its services and positive attitudes towards specific dimensions related to counseling. The participants who have already benefited from the SCC services manifested higher positive attitudes than those who haven't. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Publication History: This study aimed to examine attitudes of staff and faculty members towards the Student Counseling Center and its services
Staff attitudes towards counselling in higher education institutions, the current study aimed to examine the attitudes of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) staff 's and faculties' attitudes towards counseling services provided by the Student Counseling Center (SCC) at SQU
The current study aimed to evaluate faculty members' and staff 's attitudes towards the Student Counseling Center (SCC) and its services

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Publication History: This study aimed to examine attitudes of staff and faculty members towards the Student Counseling Center and its services. The purpose of the current study is to examine staff and faculty attitudes towards Student Counseling Center (SCC) at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). As proposed by Suliman and Aldhadha [3] counseling services contribute to tackling students' problems such as difficulty of adjusting to university life, anxiety problems and inability to make decisions. Students start their university life with a new environment that brings up new challenges to them. Mental health problems such as worry of the future, academic grades, depression and adjustment were defined by counselees examined in previous research [11,12]

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