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Toward a theory of action : = Opportunities embedded in counseling theory for school counselors to improve their perceptions of and approaches toward their relationship with their school principals.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Toward a theory of action :/
Reminder of title:	Opportunities embedded in counseling theory for school counselors to improve their perceptions of and approaches toward their relationship with their school principals.
Author:	McHugh, Stephanie A.
Description:	1 online resource (185 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Educational leadership. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369769623

Toward a theory of action : = Opportunities embedded in counseling theory for school counselors to improve their perceptions of and approaches toward their relationship with their school principals.
McHugh, Stephanie A.

Toward a theory of action :Opportunities embedded in counseling theory for school counselors to improve their perceptions of and approaches toward their relationship with their school principals. - 1 online resource (185 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This study employed perceptions of school counselors relative to their relationships with their principals in order to investigate a theory of action that employs the skills and strategies embedded in counseling theory to identify courses of action that counselors can use to improve the principal-counselor relationship. School counselors attending national and state counselor conferences (N=31) responded to a prompt asking for the perceived strengths and weaknesses of their principal-counselor relationship, and the barriers they perceived to improving the relationship. Responses were analyzed using a close reading process that applied a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) framework to the responses and identified emergent themes across the 245 response statements. The analyses revealed that the participating counselors attributed the responsibility for the strengths and weakness of their principal-counselor relationship to their principals rather than to themselves. In nearly half of the responses (47%) counselors attributed ownership of issues to principals while only 8.9% of the statements were attributed to counselor ownership. To gauge the utility of the theory of action the study also applied counseling theory to the responses from four counselor participants to highlight courses of action with a high potential for improving the principal counselor relationship. The study suggests that the application of counseling theory and the skills and strategies embedded in the theories may hold promise for helping counselors take ownership of their relationships with their principals through increased self-efficacy for relationship building and improvement.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369769623Subjects--Topical Terms:

585508
Educational leadership.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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