Abstract
School counselors are essential staff in an education setting, contributing to student success by delivering critical services when implementing a comprehensive school counseling program. The study examined the predictive relationships of school counselors’ level of grit and mindset with their activities performed in programmatic service delivery. This novel study contributed to the expansion of grit and mindset predictive relationship with school counselor’s activities performed in a comprehensive counseling program. Practical implications were discussed, and further research is warranted to identify other factors that are predictive of counselor’s job activities in a comprehensive school counseling program.
Highlights
School counselors are essential members of the educational environment contributing to student success
Substantial research has found that many factors hinder school counselors from delivery of services outlined by the ASCA National Model (ASCA, 2012; Ernst et al, 2017; Mullen & Lambie, 2016; Scarborough & Culbreth, 2008; Shillingford & Lambie, 2010)
Duckworth and Gross (2014) conclude that the growth mindset is the precursor to grit, suggesting that individuals who succeed in challenging situations need a growth mindset (Hochanadel & Finamore, 2015)
Summary
School counselors are essential members of the educational environment contributing to student success. School counselors face challenges in performing activities in CSCP, and increasing their likelihood to persist in the delivery of student services may lead to better student outcomes (Lapan, 2012; Mullen & Crowe, 2018). Grit and growth mindset may be relevant factors that increase the school counselor’s ability to perform PSD activities in a CSCP Both constructs contribute to performance in both academia and the workplace (RobertsonKraft & Duckworth, 2014; Zingoni & Corey, 2017). These constructs have been studied with other populations, grit and mindset have not been examined as predictive factors in a school counselor’s performance in delivering of services in a comprehensive school counseling program. Grit as a predictive variable may increase school counselors’ persistence in accomplishing a CSCP
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