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Burnout, Stress, and Direct Student Services Among School Counselors
Mullen, Patrick R. Gutierrez, Daniel
Mullen, Patrick R.
Gutierrez, Daniel
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The burnout and stress experienced by school counselors is likely to have a negative influence on the services they provide to students, but there is little research exploring the relationship among these variables. Therefore, we report findings from our study that examined the relationship between practicing school counselors’ (N = 926) reported levels of burnout, perceived stress and their facilitation of direct student services. The findings indicated that school counselor participants’ burnout had a negative contribution to the direct student services they facilitated. In addition, school counselors’ perceived stress demonstrated a statistically significant correlation with burnout but did not contribute to their facilitation of direct student services. We believe these findings bring attention to school counselors’ need to assess and manage their stress and burnout that if left unchecked may lead to fewer services for students. We recommend that future research further explore the relationship between stress, burnout and programmatic service delivery to support and expand upon the findings in this investigation.
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2016-01-01
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Mullen, P. R., & Gutierrez, D. (2016). Burnout, perceived stress, and direct student services among school counselors. The Professional Counselor, 6(4), 344-359. doi: 10.15241/pm.6.4.344
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