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Secondary school students' preferences for location, format of counselling and gender of counsellor: A replication study based in Northern Ireland
Author(s) -
Quinn Philip,
Chan Stephanie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1080/14733140903031119
Subject(s) - preference , psychology , affect (linguistics) , northern ireland , medical education , replication (statistics) , mathematics education , social psychology , medicine , sociology , ethnology , communication , virology , economics , microeconomics
Aims : This study replicates a research investigation conducted by Cooper (2006), examining three factors that may affect students’ willingness to attend a school‐based counselling service: location of the service (school‐based or external); format (individual or group); and gender of counsellor. Method : The views of 589 students from four Northern Ireland secondary and grammar schools were surveyed and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results : As found by Cooper (2006), more than two thirds (68.2%) of students expressed a preference for seeing a counsellor in their school; over 80% of students expressed a preference for seeing a counsellor on their own; and a marked preference for female counsellors existed, particularly amongst female students.