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#SOS³: A Phenomenological Study of School Counseling Supervisors' Clinical Supervision Experiences

Abstract

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School counselors support students' social-emotional, academic, and career readiness (ASCA, 2019). However, who provides support for school counselors to navigate this herculean responsibility? Supervision provides opportunities for counselors to learn, consult, and practice counseling knowledge and skills to offer the most research-informed, inclusive, and culturally responsive services to appropriately support clients' needs (Bernard and Goodyear, 2019; Ratts et al., 2015; Mitchell and Butler, 2021). With the current state of society, students' mental health and social-emotional needs are paramount, and the support needed for school counselors to assist students' holistic development is critical. The author proposes #S.O.S.³ to promote the Supervision of School Counselors to Support Students. Without counseling supervision, research warns of erosion of school counselor self-efficacy. This qualitative, phenomenological study used semi-structured interviews to investigate ten school counseling supervisors' (SCS) counseling supervision experiences. This study uncovered five superordinate themes and related subthemes regarding the supervision experiences of SCS who received and delivered clinical supervision. Implications for SCS, counselor educators, school district and state educational administrators on the needs of SCS that will inform the supervision of school counselors who provide counseling services to support students' social-emotional/mental health needs are discussed.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Doctor of Philosophy
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Counselor Education
Department dc:contributor.department
Education, Community College
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2022

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Shaver, Anaid Danyelle
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Lawson, Gerard Francis
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Grimes, Tameka O.
  • Ellington, Breanna Lea
  • Welfare, Laura E.
  • Kniola, David J.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:35437
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/111946

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citation

Shaver, Anaid Danyelle. #SOS³: A Phenomenological Study of School Counseling Supervisors' Clinical Supervision Experiences. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/111946