Middle School Counselors Research Articles

School Counselors' Perceptions of Career Counseling and Career Testing: Preferences, Priorities, and Predictors

Limited information on the actual and preferred career counseling and career testing activities of school counselors exists. An analysis of a statewide school counselors' survey revealed career counseling and testing preferences, priorities and predictors. Results revealed counselors preferred trait/factor approaches to career counseling, including Holland's RIASEC theory, Person-Environment-Correspondence theory and Cognitive Information Processing theory, respectively. With respect to career counseling and career testing priorities, means comparisons indicated that elementary, middle, and high school counselors' actual time performing career counseling duties is minimal; however, they desire to spend significantly more time on career counseling and testing. Multiple regressions revealed important predictor variables for actual and ideal time spent on career counseling and career testing. Limitations and recommendations for further research are discussed.

School Counselors' Perceptions of Career Counseling and Career Testing: Preferences, Priorities, and Predictors

Limited information on the actual and preferred career counseling and career testing activities of school counselors exists. An analysis of a statewide school counselors' survey revealed career counseling and testing preferences, priorities and predictors. Results revealed counselors preferred trait/factor approaches to career counseling, including Holland's RIASEC theory, Person-Environment-Correspondence theory and Cognitive Information Processing theory, respectively. With respect to career counseling and career testing priorities, means comparisons indicated that elementary, middle, and high school counselors' actual time performing career counseling duties is minimal; however, they desire to spend significantly more time on career counseling and testing. Multiple regressions revealed important predictor variables for actual and ideal time spent on career counseling and career testing. Limitations and recommendations for further research are discussed.

Recent Dissertations

Abigosis, Betty Joan. "Seeking a Double Understanding: Constituting Local First Nations Governance." PhD diss., University of Saskatchewan, 2003. Awakuni-Swetland, Mark Joseph. "Umonhon ithae the, Umonhon bthi n; I Speak Omaha, I Am Omaha. Omaha Language Choice, 1971–2001." PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 2003. Barney, Brett. "Tied in Nots: Great Britain, Native America, and the Discursive Creation of United States National Subjects." PhD diss., University of Nebraska, 2003. Birtcher, Esther S. "A Middle School Counseling Program Integrating Navajo Traditional Counseling Methods with Western Counseling Theories." EdD diss., Fielding Graduate Institute, 2003. Blackburn, Carole Rae. "Negotiating Rights, Reconciling History: The Nisga'a Treaty and the Terms of Inclusion in the Canadian State." PhD diss., Stanford University, 2003. Brinkman, Raymond. "Etsmeystkhw khwe snwiyepmshtsn: You Know How to Talk Like a Whiteman." PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2003. Brumett, Angela Renee. "Treatment of the Psychocultural in the Creation of Dramatic Media: The Application of Psychological Anthropology to the Development of Two Dramatic Writing Projects." PhD diss., Union Institute, 2003. Carlyle, Shawn White. "Geographical and Temporal Lineage Stability among the Anasazi." PhD diss., University of Utah, 2003. Cassidy, Barbara Elizabeth. "Getting Rid of the Indian Problem: Aboriginal Suicide as a Manifestation of Genocide." PhD diss., York University, 2003. Cobb, Daniel M. "Community, Poverty, Power: The Politics of Tribal Self-Determination, 1960–1968." PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 2003. De Larios, Ruth Ellen. "Self-Assessed Dakota Language Fluency and Suggested [End Page 817] Strategies for Language Revitalization on the Spirit Lake Nation." PhD diss., University of North Dakota, 2003. Dodge, Kathryn Eileen. "Through the Looking Glass: A Qualitative Exploration of Alaska Native Women's Experiences in Native and Non-Native Organizations." PhD diss., Fielding Graduate Institute, 2003. Eastman-Johnson, Cheryl Ann. "Perceptions of Factors That Contribute to the Success of American Indian Children." EdD diss., University of South Dakota, 2003. Eckert, Suzanne Lorraine. "Social Boundaries, Immigration, and Ritual Systems: A Case Study from the American Southwest." PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2003. Ensor, Bradley Eugene. "Crow-Omaha Marital Alliances and Social Transformations: Archaeological Case Studies on the Taino, Hohokam, and Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley." PhD diss., University of Florida, 2003. Fox, LaVonne Francis. "The Other Category: Native American Women Faculty in Academe." PhD diss., University of North Dakota, 2003. Fricke, Suzanne Newman. "Institutionalizing Taste: Kenneth Milton Chapman, the Indian Arts Fund, and the Growth of Fine Art Pueblo Pottery." PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2003. Goeman, Mishuana R. "Unconquered Nations, Unconquered Women: Native Women Remapping Race, Gender, and Nation." PhD diss., Stanford University, 2003. Griffin, Rachel Elizabeth Goddard. "Taking It Home with You: Native American Art and Cross-Cultural Collecting." PhD diss., University of California, 2003. Holkup, Patricia Ann. "Native American Elder Mistreatment: A Community Concern." PhD diss., University of Iowa, 2003. Houde, Elizabeth. "L'eponymie et l'adoption dans la tradition Inuit du Nunavik: Une mise en scene de l'alterite." PhD diss., University Laval, 2003. Johnson, Greg Bruce. "The Terms of Return: Religious Discourse and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act." PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2003. Kakaliouras, Ann M. "Biological Distance and the Ethnolinguistic Classification of Late Woodland (AD 800-1650) Native Americans on the Coast of North Carolina." PhD diss., University of North Carolina, 2003. Kamper, David Mark. "The Politics and Poetics of Organizing Navajo Laborers." PhD diss., University of California, 2003. Katz, Janet Ruth. "A Collective Case Study of Native American Nurses from the Plateau Tribes." PhD, Gonzaga University, 2003. Kelm, Mary-Ellen. "Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900–1950." PhD diss., University of Toronto, 1995. [End Page 818] Leclair, Carole. "Metis Environmental Knowledge: La tayr pi tout li moond." PhD diss., York University, 2003. Lee, Kimberli Ann. "I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: Mari Sandoz and Native American Rights, 1950–1965." PhD diss., University of Nebraska, 2003. MacNeille, Kem Joanna Tenney. "Parental Involvement Viewed from Three High Schools in Navajo County, Arizona." EdD diss., Arizona State University, 2003. Marubbio, Miriam Elise. "Death of...

Reporting Suspected Child Abuse: A Pilot Comparison of Middle and High School Counselors and Principals

ABSTRACT A survey on experiences with child abuse reporting was obtained from 116 middle and high school counselors and principals across the U.S. Results revealed that counselors throughout their careers had made more reports than principals and perceived themselves to be better trained on child abuse. Those school professionals with fewer years of experience reported more adequate pre-service training. Counselors also failed to report in more instances than principals, citing as deterrents the lack of physical evidence and little faith in child protective services. Most counselors and principals took appropriate action when presented with case examples of child sexual abuse. Recommendations for future research are provided.

Guided Viewing of Film: A Strategy for Counseling Gifted Teenagers

Counselors and teachers of gifted students seek strategies appropriate for addressing important social and emotional issues affecting the lives of the young people with whom they work. The authors propose guided viewing of film as a counseling strategy through which middle and high school counselors and educators may assist gifted students in gaining helpful insights to deal with the problems they face. This article presents a theoretical foundation for this approach, a variety of strategies for implementation, and three sample plans for guided viewing sessions.

Training school counselors in substance abuse risk reduction techniques for use with children and adolescents.

A training project prepared school counselors for expanded roles in the prevention, early detection, and appropriate referral of students at high risk of substance abuse. The project trained middle and high school counselors to work as facilitators of support groups for students at greatest risk for substance abuse; the results were: 1) greater perceived self-efficacy, comfort, confidence, and competence by counselors as a result of Initial, Experiential, and Concurrent training, and 2) improved ability to use group counseling techniques as a result of training.

To New Middle School Counselors

To New Middle School Counselors

A Letter from a Middle School Counselor to Her Principal

What can principals of middle level schools do to enhance counselor efforts to help the youngsters in their school? The behavior listed in this article is a good place to start.

The Role of the Middle School Counselor

database entries through March 1993. The ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services (ERIC/CAPS), University of Michigan, School of Education, Room 2108, 610 East University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1259, is a good source of additional information on counseling in middle schools. A recent ERIC/CAPS publication, The Challenge of Counseling in Middle Schools (Kathleen O'Rourke, editor; 403 p., $26.95), contains 33 articles that address topics of importance to counselors who serve middle school students.

School counseling groups and children of divorce: Loosening attachment to mother in adolescent girls

This paper describes the events in a middle school counseling group of nine adolescent girls, ages 12–14, which met weekly for seven months. Selection of students was made by the school counselor. Leaders of the group were two female therapists from a community agency, provided at no cost to the school. Coincidentally, all nine girls came from families where divorce had occurred. The events in the group featured numerous changes in friendship alliances, especially from triads to dyads. This allowed examination of emotional reactions to separation, loss and rejoining, related to having experienced loss of one parent, usually father, due to the divorce. Consequently, there was a need to loosen the intensified bond to the mother. Anger at one of the therapists facilitated examination of anger at mothers.

Helping Early Adolescents Live with Change

Early adolescents need to be prepared for the inevitable and perfectly normal changes that come as they progress through middle school. Change can mean a loss as a stu dent replaces one set of behaviors or feel ings with another. Increasingly, educators are taking more initiative in helping facilitate these changes and cope with these losses. This article will list typical middle school transitions and will explore ways counselors and teachers can help students cope more effectively with these changes. During middle school, adolescents ex perience natural changes: maturing bodies, transitions from elementary to middle to high school, changing role in their families, and an increased awareness of their environment. In addition, as most teenagers are becoming sophisticated about these transitions over which they have no control, many of these children are also be ing exposed to other unchosen adjustments in their particular environment such as a move to a new home, a divorce, and/or a death. Middle school teachers and counselors

1988 Middle School Counselor of the Year

1988 Middle School Counselor of the Year

Peer Helping: A Successful Exploratory Course

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsHarriet SwiftHarriet Swift, the teacher/counselor of this program, was recently selected Georgia Middle School Counselor of the year by the State Association. For the past ten years she has been a counselor at the Griffin Middle School in Cobb County, Smyrna, Georgia.

Needed— A Role Statement for Middle School Counselors

Needed— A Role Statement for Middle School Counselors

The Middle School Counselor: A Teacher-Perspective

The Middle School Counselor: A Teacher-Perspective