An analysis of the effectiveness of school-based strategic family counseling on academic success and self-concept of underachieving high school students

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of school-based strategic family counseling to improve upon adolescent academic success rates and self- concept. The basic design of the study involved two treatment groups, individual and strategic family counseling. Six participating counselors met with five students (or students and their families) for a minimum of ten sessions each throughout the second semester of the 1987-1986 school year. Specific computational procedures used in data analyses included factor, reliability, T­-tests, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) procedures and response variable correlations. Results of the study indicated that neither counseling method resulted in overall improvement on students' academic achievement or self-concept. An analysis of counselor within treatment provided significant results with differences shown in the [remainder of author-provided abstract is not available.]

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Student Personnel Services

Department dc:contributor.department

Student Personnel Services

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1989

Author dc:creator

• Stone, Judy

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Humes, Charles W.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Little, Linda F.
• Miles, Johnnie H.
• Eddy, David
• Malpass, Peter G.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54435

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/54435