TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Mick
AU  - Hough,Mike
AU  - Loynd,Claire
TI  - Scottish secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards, and conceptualisations of, counselling
SN  - 03069885
AV  - LB1027.5 BRI 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Secondary school teacher attitudes
KW  - School counseling
N2  - his paper presents the findings of two independent questionnaire studies that examined Scottish secondary schools teachers’ attitudes towards, and conceptualisation of, school counselling. Seventy-one teachers in a first study, and 33 teachers in a second study, responded to a range of qualitative and quantitative response-format questions that were designed to elicit their feelings and attitudes towards school counselling, and their notions of what counselling was. Results from the two studies confirm previous findings in this area, suggesting that teachers are generally positive in their attitudes towards counselling; valuing, in particular, the independence and expertise of the counsellor. A small minority of teachers, however, were found to hold strongly negative views towards counselling. Teachers also expressed concerns that students might abuse the counselling service, and that the service might not fully integrate with existing guidance arrangements provided by teachers in schools. The study also found that a high proportion of teachers conceptualised counselling in terms of advice-giving
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/03069880500132722
ER  -