An Investigation of School Counselor and School Counselor Trainee Activities

Abstract

Standards were used to compare the types of activities conducted by professional school counselors and their perceptions of the activities conducted by their supervisees. School counselors who supervised trainees were asked to rate the frequency in which they conducted activities within these performance standards and the frequency in which they perceived their trainees conducted these same tasks. The researchers found a significant difference in all areas (p < .05) of the compared activities.

School Counselors’ Perceptions of Barriers to Implementing a RAMP-Designated School Counseling Program

“…Despite the original release of the ASCA National Model in 2003, the movement toward implementing RAMP-designated programs has been slow (Hatch & Chen-Hayes, 2008). In the roughly 5 years following 2003, less than half of school counselors had implemented a comprehensive, developmental school counseling program (Oberman & Studer, 2008). A more recent study estimated that, on average, school counseling programs have implemented the ASCA National Model at about a three-quarter level (Fye, Miller, & Rainey, 2017).…”