ERIC Number: EJ1034683
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 74
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1096-2409
Evaluating a Safe Space Training for School Counselors and Trainees Using a Randomized Control Group Design
Byrd, Rebekah; Hays, Danica G.
Professional School Counseling, v17 n1 p20-31 2013-2014
School counselors need to advocate and act as an ally for all students. Safe Space, a training designed to facilitate competency for working with and serving LGBTQ youth (i.e., LGBTQ competency), has received increased attention in the field of school counseling. However, limited empirical support exists for training interventions such as Safe Space, with only one study to date examining its effectiveness for graduate psychology students (see Finkel, Storaasli, Bandele, & Schaefer, 2003). This study used a randomized pretest-posttest control group design to evaluate and examine the impact of Safe Space training on competency levels of a sample of school counselors/school counselor trainees and to explore the relationship between LGBTQ competency and awareness of sexism and heterosexism.
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Counselor Training, Trainees, Intervention, Graduate Students, Psychology, Pretests Posttests, Gender Bias, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Homosexuality, Counseling Effectiveness, Competence, Ethics, Effect Size, Correlation, Demography, Instructional Effectiveness, School Safety, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; High Schools; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: United States (Mid Atlantic States)

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