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ERIC Number: ED640505
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 128
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3808-7269-0
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Elementary School Counselors' Wellness: A Delphi Study on Influential Self-Care Practices
Kelly A. Kaczmarczyk
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Regent University
Elementary school counselors (ESCs) experience larger caseloads, increased isolation, little clinical supervision, and non-counseling-related duties compared to other counselors, increasing their risk for burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious traumatization. Research indicates that these factors inflate the potential for the provision of ineffective counseling services, attrition from the profession, or suicide. This Delphi study is the first to explicitly examine ESCs' wellness and their most influential self-care practices. For this sample of ESCs, the mean on the 5F-WEL Total Wellness Scale was intermediate (M=63.69%). Experts provided a consensus of the ten most restorative self-care practices they use to restore their wellness. The study also introduces the new term Compassion Restoration Practices to explain specialized self-care relevant to counseling practices. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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