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Stand Tall to Protect Students: School Counselors Strengthening School Connectedness
Author(s) -
Lapan Richard T.,
Wells Ryan,
Petersen Judy,
McCann Leigh Ann
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2014.00158.x
Subject(s) - social connectedness , poverty , psychology , sample (material) , medical education , mathematics education , medicine , social psychology , political science , chemistry , chromatography , law
In an urban sample of 5,595 students in Grades 7–12, the authors found that (a) personalized counseling services that were responsive to student needs enhanced school connectedness, (b) risk factors (e.g., poverty, mobility rates, limited English proficiency) were associated with lower school connectedness scores, and (c) responsive counseling services acted as a protective factor that reduced some of the negative effects of risk factors on school connectedness, and consequently, student success in academic and nonacademic areas.