Influence Of School Counselors Social Justice Advocacy And Multicultural Counseling Competencies On Counselor Engagement In School Family Community Collaboration

Download or read book Influence of School Counselors' Social Justice Advocacy and Multicultural Counseling Competencies on Counselor Engagement in School-Family-Community Collaboration written by Dadria Renada Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of five contextual variables and ten personal variables on the school-family-community collaboration practices reported by a national sample of school counselors. The five contextual variables examined were: (a) school climate (b) principal support, (c) ethnicity of student body, (d) economic status of student body and (e) school level. The ten personal variables examined were; (a) school family community collaboration training, (b) multicultural counseling training, (c) multicultural counseling competence - knowledge, (d), multicultural counseling competence - awareness (e) social justice advocacy training, (f) social justice advocacy - collaborative action; (g) social justice advocacy - social /political advocacy, (h) social justice advocacy - client empowerment, (i) social justice advocacy - client/ community advocacy) and (j) ethnicity of counselor. Limitations in sample size, missing data, weak model fit, and instruments in need of continued validation led to a conservative conclusion that the person factors of social justice advocacy (collaborative action), and S-F-C training (self efficacy about partnership) have a significant contribution to school counselors' involvement in S-F-C collaboration.