Exploring the Relationship between Multicultural Self-Efficacy, Empathy, and Training of School Counselors and their Knowledge and Skills Related to Supporting Homeless Students

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Camp, A. (2018). Exploring the Relationship between Multicultural Self-Efficacy, Empathy, and Training of School Counselors and their Knowledge and Skills Related to Supporting Homeless Students. Unc Charlotte Electronic Theses And Dissertations.
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Abstract

Homelessness remains a national concern that affects the lives of many individuals. Approximately one-third of the homeless population includes family households (Havlik & Bryan, 2015; HUD, 2016; National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009), with over 22% being minors. Professional school counselors are responsible for addressing and supporting "students’ academic, personal-social and career development needs by designing, implementing, evaluating and enhancing a comprehensive school counseling program that promotes and enhances student success" (ASCA, 2012; Paragraph 1). Additionally, school counselors are to foster a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for underserved and at-risk populations to ensure they are neither stigmatized nor isolated based on their circumstances (ASCA, 2016). A non-experimental, correlational survey design was used to explore the relationship between the multicultural self-efficacy, empathy, and training of school counselors (N=259) and their knowledge and skills related to supporting homeless students. A standard multiple regression indicated that although school counselors’ multicultural self-efficacy and training were statistically significant and positively correlated to their knowledge and skills supporting homeless students, empathy was insignificant. The significance of training as a partial and total mediator was assessed through PROCESS and determined that training partially mediates the relationship between the multicultural self-efficacy of school counselors and their knowledge and skills supporting homeless students.

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Author

Camp, Ami

Title

Exploring the Relationship between Multicultural Self-Efficacy, Empathy, and Training of School Counselors and their Knowledge and Skills Related to Supporting Homeless Students

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1 online resource (147 pages) : PDF

Date

2018

Degree Granting Institution

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Abstract

Homelessness remains a national concern that affects the lives of many individuals. Approximately one-third of the homeless population includes family households (Havlik & Bryan, 2015; HUD, 2016; National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009), with over 22% being minors. Professional school counselors are responsible for addressing and supporting "students’ academic, personal-social and career development needs by designing, implementing, evaluating and enhancing a comprehensive school counseling program that promotes and enhances student success" (ASCA, 2012; Paragraph 1). Additionally, school counselors are to foster a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for underserved and at-risk populations to ensure they are neither stigmatized nor isolated based on their circumstances (ASCA, 2016). A non-experimental, correlational survey design was used to explore the relationship between the multicultural self-efficacy, empathy, and training of school counselors (N=259) and their knowledge and skills related to supporting homeless students. A standard multiple regression indicated that although school counselors’ multicultural self-efficacy and training were statistically significant and positively correlated to their knowledge and skills supporting homeless students, empathy was insignificant. The significance of training as a partial and total mediator was assessed through PROCESS and determined that training partially mediates the relationship between the multicultural self-efficacy of school counselors and their knowledge and skills supporting homeless students.

Genre

doctoral dissertations

Subjects--Topics

Educational counseling

Degree

Ph.D.

Keywords

Counselor Education
Empathy
Homelessness
Multicultural Self-Efficacy
School Counselors
Training

Subject Area

Counseling

Advisor(s)

Foxx, Sejal

Committee Members

Merlin-Knoblich, Clare
Abrams, Lyndon
Flowers, Claudia
Laditka, Sarah

Degree Note

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2018.

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Camp_uncc_0694D_11805

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