The purpose of this study was to examine the success indicators that are used by five counseling consumer groups, i.e., counselors, teachers, administrators, students, and parents to judge the success of school counseling programs. A Counseling Success Indicator Inventory (CSII) consisting of 59 indicators in seven functional domains was used in the study. The functional areas or domains are: (a) Effective Communication; (b) Relationship with Students; (c) Relationship with Administrators, Staff, and Parents; (d) Management Skills; (e) Results/Outcomes of Successful Counseling; (f) Counseling Environment; and (g) Skills and Competencies. / Fifteen of Leon County's 20 elementary schools were randomly selected to participate in the study. Questionnaires were obtained from 562 participants. / Four hypotheses were tested, two using Spearman Rho Rank-Order Coefficient Correlation and Discriminant Analysis with a pre-set.05 alpha. The remaining two hypotheses were tested using criteria set by the researcher. / Results indicated that there was a core of common as well as unique success indicators among the five groups. There were high consensus as well as high disagreement indicators. There were also indicators for which there was a high level of agreement among the groups relative to the importance of the indicators. The highest level of agreement was between the adult groups and the lowest level of agreement was between the student and adult group. Also, group membership could be predicted from responses to the indicators for four of five groups. / The groups were similar in their perceptions of core indicators, ranking of the top 15 indicators, ranking of all 59 indicators, as well as perceptions of the role of the counselor. / The groups were unique in how they viewed specific indicators, the seven functional domains of the top 15 indicators as well as how they perceived certain counselor roles. / It does appear, however, that the groups are similar while yet being different. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-02, Section: A, page: 0413. / Major Professor: Gary Peterson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78171 |
| Contributors | Elliott, Jennyethel McKinney., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 254 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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