Other Duties as Assigned: The Ambiguous Role of the High School Counselor

Autor/in	Blake, Mary Kate
Titel	Other Duties as Assigned: The Ambiguous Role of the High School Counselor
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 93 (2020) 4, S.315-330 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Blake, Mary Kate)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040720932563
Schlagwörter	School Counselors; Counselor Role; Role Conflict; Occupational Information; Counselor Attitudes; Ambiguity (Context); High Schools; Counselor Evaluation; Supervision + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School counselor; Beratungslehrer; Pädagogischer Berater; Rollenkonflikt; Berufsinformation; High school; Oberschule
Abstract	Previous research suggests high school counselors are not living up to their potential as social/emotional, academic, and postsecondary counselors. This article addresses this concern by studying how schools and districts utilize counselors. Through interviews and observations of high school counselors, administrators, and counselor educators in an urban midwestern community, I find that counselors suffer from role ambiguity and role conflict due to lack of a clear job description, overlap with similar professions, supervision by noncounseling administrators, inadequate forms of performance evaluation, and conflict between their roles as counselors and educators. This conflict leads to poor boundaries at work, with counselors receiving an overwhelming amount of noncounseling duties that reduce their time with students. High school counselors have the potential to improve student social and academic outcomes, but these obstacles of role ambiguity and role conflict reduce them to school managers rather than master's-level trained educators with a mental health background. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01