Although school counselors and school counselor educators have an ethical responsibility to use and to teach evidence-based practices (EBPs), recent research has illustrated a lack of EBP in counselor education scholarship. In school counselor education programs, training related to EBP may be absent due to a lack of understanding or instructor training. This article provides a model using three pedagogical approaches for integrating EBP into school counselor education programs. We review the three approaches-stand-alone courses, full program integration, and program-school-community integration-in depth and use a case study to illustrate the application of the three approaches. Implications for school counseling practice and research conclude the article.
Authors performed a content analysis of school counseling–related intervention research in 21 journals affiliated with the American Counseling Association and the American School Counselor Association across the 10-year span of 2006–2016. Results indicated that minimal school counseling intervention research articles were published ( N = 53) in these 21 journals during that time period and that most studies were quasi-experimental, single-group, pre-/posttest design with a fairly small N, raising questions about validity and generalizability of findings. We discuss implications for practice and future research.
This special edition of Professional School Counseling presents some of the key proceedings from the ninth annual Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference. This article offers both an overview of the content of this issue and—in this complex world context we now inhabit—new ideas for ways to use evidence-based school counseling (EBSC) to support the emotional well-being and future success of our students, families, and school colleagues. We include some possible ways to do antiracist and social justice-focused school counseling from an EBSC lens and offer several suggestions for updates to the EBSC lens itself.
This special edition of Professional School Counseling provides some of the key proceedings from the seventh annual Evidence-based School Counseling Conference (EBSCC). As the conceptual and practical aspects of conducting evidence-based school counseling (EBSC) have evolved, those changes are reflected in the conference content. This article identifies some of the ways that EBSC has progressed, including making sure that multiple aspects of student well-being—such as mental health and social-emotional learning—are given full consideration, increased attention to complex social contexts and student intersectional identities, new ways of thinking about what data to use and how to use it to make decisions and to show impact, as well as methods for teaching prospective school counselors how to most effectively practice EBSC.
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