Scholars have advocated for the integration of spirituality into school counseling; however, school counselor education and professional organizations continue to exclude spiritual/religious competencies from school counselor preparation, professional identity, and practice. The authors offer strategies for incorporating religious and spiritual…

In this qualitative case study, we implemented an anti-oppressive, social justice curriculum in a school counseling internship course and then explored its impact on participants (N = 3) as school counseling students and full-time school counselors. We identified 11 themes that reflect how the curriculum impacted participants as students and…

The purpose of this article is to provide a new social justice conceptual framework in school counselling. Although principles of social justice have been discussed in the counselling field, more discussion on the principles is needed to help school counsellors improve their counselling services for all students. This comprehensive literature…

School counseling graduate programs can fall short of preparing students with authentic and systems-focused skills in classroom instruction. We offer three problem-based learning assignments for counselor educators to help school counselors-in-training develop pedagogical skills and deliver lessons that address authentic problems facing students…

Annually, there are school counseling specific counselor educator positions that remain unfilled. There is a need for more counselor educators with school counseling backgrounds. This grounded theory provides a model of the process by which school counselor educators decide to enter academia and what keeps them in their positions, based on focus…

According to the American School Counselor Association, school counseling interns' competence should be measured by an instrument grounded in professional standards. However, no valid and reliable instrument exists to assess school counseling interns' competencies. We created and validated a school counseling supervision instrument with four…

This manuscript describes an empirically designed internship course that utilized the Ecological Social Justice School Counseling theory to teach internship students how to engage in antiracist practice to address social determinants of health in schools. The research reports on the eight school counseling internship students' experiences, through…

This exploratory mixed methods study investigates the school psychology workforce shortage phenomenon and underlying contributing factors. The development of an Education Specialist school psychology program in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the authors to explore variables impacting awareness of the school psychology profession.…

While the need for school counselors to support ELs is prominent, school counselors believed they were not well prepared to effectively work with EL students. To inform and strengthen our practice, we engaged in a practitioner inquiry study to understand the lived experiences of school counselors-in-training (SCITs) in an experiential learning…

This study investigates student interaction and engagement in Twitter-supported collaborative learning, focusing on cognitive and socio-emotional processes, their evolution, and their impact on knowledge construction and group project outcomes within a higher education flipped classroom context. Utilising mixed methods analysis, including…

All counseling graduate students participate in fieldwork experiences and engage in supervision to promote their professional development. School counseling trainees complete these experiences in the unique context of elementary and secondary school settings. As such, school counselors-in-training (SCITs) may seek to approach supervision with…

This systematic literature review investigated school counselling needs in East and Southeast Asia based on 109 studies from 14 countries published since 2011. School counselling needs were categorised using an international taxonomy (Morshed & Carey, 2020, Development of a taxonomy of policy levers to promote high quality school-based…

The study aims to describe the level of cultural intelligence of students using the cultural intelligence scale (CQS) and its implications for education. The research subjects were 332 students. The results of the CQS show that 4.9% of prospective counselor students are in the low category. The low cultural intelligence of students is indicated by…

This study, using a transcendental phenomenological approach, explored the perceptions and experiences of school counselor trainees participating in a self-care course grounded in mindfulness and social--emotional learning. Seven students who enrolled in a master's-level school counseling program and completed a summer self-care course shared…

Dr. Trish Hatch has served as a leader in school counselor policy and advocacy for over 30 years. As a co-author of the ASCA National Model, Dr. Hatch has worked tirelessly to establish school-based policies to promote the profession of school counseling at the district, state, and federal levels. This interview serves to provide readers with…