School Counselors' Concerns Regarding Effective Crisis Intervention for Students of Diverse Backgrounds

• Main Author: Canada, Michelle Lynn
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2005
• Subjects: school counselors; crisis; multicultural competencies; multicultural; diversity; school-based; intervention; crisis intervention; Counseling Psychology; Special Education and Teaching
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/717; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1716&context=etd

Although school counselors routinely provide crisis intervention, minimal research has focused specifically on providing such services in a manner sensitive to multicultural and ethnically diverse students. Responses of a random national sample of school counselors (n = 276, 69% return rate) indicate that approximately half voice some sort of concern related to providing crisis intervention services to students from diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to summarize school counselor's concerns, providing an initial understanding for this aspect of school-based crisis intervention. Additionally, school counselors' comments were further analyzed to examine possible relationships between the type of concern and the practitioners' setting (rural, urban, suburban, rural/suburban, or suburban/urban) and years of practice as a school counselor. Based on school counselor's concerns, recommendations are made to provide more effective school-based crisis intervention for individuals of diverse backgrounds.