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1	Evaluating a Safe Space Training for School Counselors and Trainees Using a Randomized Control Group Design Byrd, Rebekah J., Hays, Danica 06 September 2017 (has links) School counselors need to advocate and act as an ally for all students. Safe Space, a training designed to facilitate competency for working with and serving LGBTQ youth (i.e., LGBTQ competency), has received increased attention in the field of school counseling. However, limited empirical support exists for training interventions such as Safe Space, with only one study to date examining its effectiveness for graduate psychology students (see Finkel, Storaasli, Bandele, & Schaefer, 2003). This study used a randomized pretest-posttest control group design to evaluate and examine the impact of Safe Space training on competency levels of a sample of school counselors/school counselor trainees and to explore the relationship between LGBTQ competency and awareness of sexism and heterosexism. school counseling school counselors counselor training trainees intervention graduate students psychology pretests posttests gender bias control groups experimental groups homosexuality counseling effectiveness competence ethics effect size correlation demography instructional effectiveness school safety elementary school students middle school students high school students Counseling and Human Services