The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of school-based strategic family counseling to improve upon adolescent academic success rates and self- concept. The basic design of the study involved two treatment groups, individual and strategic family counseling. Six participating counselors met with five students (or students and their families) for a minimum of ten sessions each throughout the second semester of the 1987-1986 school year. Specific computational procedures used in data analyses included factor, reliability, TÂ-tests, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) procedures and response variable correlations. Results of the study indicated that neither counseling method resulted in overall improvement on students' academic achievement or self-concept. An analysis of counselor within treatment provided significant results with differences shown in the [remainder of author-provided abstract is not available.] / Ed. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/54435 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Stone, Judy |
| Contributors | Student Personnel Services, Humes, Charles W., Little, Linda F., Miles, Johnnie H., Eddy, David, Malpass, Peter G. |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation, Text |
| Format | viii, 134 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 21532535 |
Page generated in 0.0028 seconds