The American School Counseling Association (ASCA) calls for school counselors to provide comprehensive programming and services to serve all students (ASCA,2019). The purpose of the study was to examine school counselors' level of awareness, attitudes, and self-efficacy towards students identified as gifted and having a disability (twice exceptional) as viewed through the lens of The Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991). The study explored differences between participants from accredited and nonaccredited programs in counselor education (CACREP vs non-CACREP). Data was collected from school counselors (N=127) who completed a Qualtrics survey utilizing four instruments Twice-Exceptional Needs Assessment Survey (Foley-Nicpon et al., 2013); The Survey of Practices with Students of Varying Needs (Tomlinson et al., 1995); The Students with Learning Disabilities School Counselor Self-Efficacy Scale (Boulden, 2020); and a demographic questionnaire. A MANCOVA examined group differences between CACREP and non-CACREP programs. When considering school counselors experience, results indicated differences between accreditation programs on school counselors' awareness, attitudes, and self-efficacy towards students identified as twice exceptional. The findings suggest participants from CACREP programs had higher levels of awareness, attitudes, and self-efficacy for working with student identified as twice exceptional. The findings help inform areas of future research and implications for counselor educators.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ucf.edu/oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:etd2020-2085 |
| Date | 01 January 2022 |
| Creators | Rolins, Dilian |
| Publisher | STARS |
| Source Sets | University of Central Florida |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020- |
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