Exploring Individual and Organizational Predictors of School Counselor Wellness

Abstract

In the present study, we examined the predictive relationships between individual and organizational factors and multidimensional wellness, as described by the Indivisible Self wellness model. Participants were 297 practicing school counselors from across the United States. Using hierarchical regression analyses, we found predictive relationships between years of experience, race and ethnicity, gender, and amount of time engaged in monthly consultation with several dimensions of wellness.

A Quantitative Exploration of School Counselors’ Evidence-Based Classroom Management Implementation: Investigating Culturally Sustaining Practices and Multicultural Competence

“…These findings suggest greater frequency of evidence-based classroom management implementation due to types of professional and personal experience. In particular, these findings are highly consistent with school counseling literature (e.g., Buchanan et al, 2017;Fye et al, 2022;Goodman-Scott, 2019;Mullen et al, 2018) and K-12 educational literature (e.g., Berger et al, 2018;Evertson & Weinstein, 2013;Larson & Bradshaw, 2017;Shoulders & Krei, 2015) supporting how, for school counselors and K-12 educators generally, age and years of experience can predict their practices. For example, scholars found that professional experience and/or age were positively related to school counselors' stress and burnout (Mullen et al, 2018), multidimensional wellness (Fye et al, 2022), and teacher classroom management (Berger et al, 2018;Larson & Bradshaw, 2017).…”