Exploring School Counseling During COVID-19: A Latent Profile Analysis

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Abstract

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, school counselors will play an essential role in helping students, teachers, and families adjust to returning to school and implementing services to promote students’ academic, social-emotional, and career development. In this study, we analyzed school counselors’ (N=589) delivery of program services and their individual and school characteristics to identify four approaches to school counseling: Reactive, Universal, Consultative/Collaborative, and Comprehensive during the pandemic. This study emphasizes the importance of defining the school counselors’ roles and responsibilities and the extent to which school counselors were able to deliver their school counseling programs during the global pandemic.

Authors

• Angela D Starrett, University of South Carolina

• Elizabeth Villares, Florida Atlantic University

• Dodie Limberg, University of South Carolina