Return on investment (ROI) has become part of the policymaking toolkit, particularly pertinent for activities like school-based career guidance deemed optional by some policymakers. There are institutions supporting ideal ROI methods alongside an academic critique, but little research on how ROI has been applied in practice in a guidance setting.…

The field of college mental health is changing dramatically, and we are approaching a necessary paradigm shift in how "mental health" is defined and addressed. This paper will outline two primary forces impacting how we think about mental health and how a systems change perspective might help us understand what comes next. We will…

This generic qualitative inquiry aims to understand the lived experience of school counselors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research question asks how school counselors describe their perceptions of crisis self-efficacy in their work with students and families during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This study utilized the step-by-step guide to a…

The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to understand the relationship between organizational culture on burnout for college counseling center clinicians. Studies have examined the relationship between organizational culture and burnout for mental health clinicians, but none have researched how organizational culture may play a…

The purpose of this study was to examine how clinical supervision impacted School Counselor self-efficacy in a sample of certified School Counselors. Using the School Counselor Self-Efficacy Scale, this study compared the averages of scores between School Counselors who did not have clinical supervision and School Counselors who had clinical…

In this article we discuss findings from an exploratory Irish online survey that examined professional practice issues for adult guidance professionals working in the Irish Further Education and Training (FET) sector. We explore current guidance counselling provision to adult learners in the context of major structural and systemic reforms that…

The main purpose of this study is to determine the level of institutional isomorphism of Guidance Research Centers (GRS), which are public education organizations. The concept of institutional isomorphism means that organizations that are similar according to the type, level and characteristics of environmental conditions can survive. In the…

Cultural competence continues to be a topic that has affected school counselors when delivering services in culturally diverse schools. Literature has suggested that school counselors who demonstrate cultural competence are more responsive within diverse school settings (Holcomb-McCoy, 2008). Even though counselor education programs have…

Guidance and counselling is increasingly becoming an important service in secondary schools in Kenya and the world at large. The needs of learners in secondary schools are constantly changing as the society is changing paving way for counselling services to be up scaled to address both academic and other issues. The purpose of this study is to…

Background: Mental health care is critical to improving mental health but factors associated with student utilization are poorly understood. Methods: Data were from high school students (N = 2933; mean age = 15.7 ± 0.6) enrolled in a California cohort. We examined associations of sociodemographic factors, substance use, and mental health symptoms…

The narrative review explores 15 years of research and development in culturally attuned trauma-specific programs for school counseling in occupied Palestine. The review examines the long-standing collaborative partnership between two educational psychologists, one in Palestine, the other in Scotland. The review begins with the context of violent…

Career aspirations and career development are major concerns in national building. This study explored the career aspirations of final year B.Ed. Accounting students in a Ghanaian university and the barriers that prevented them from achieving their aspirations. The census technique was used to capture all final-year university students pursuing a…

Postpandemic culture has provided educators the opportunity to rebuild and reclaim the education system from its very foundation. Pioneering researchers in school counseling have begun reexamining what antiracist school counseling programs look like and providing school counselors practical recommendations for addressing racism and dismantling…

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…

Although previous studies have examined the influence of school counselor ratios on student outcomes for various states, no prior studies of counselor ratios focused on schools in Texas. Utilizing data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the Stanford Education Data Archive, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Texas Education Agency, we…