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Understanding the Impact of School Factors on School Counselor Burnout: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Understanding the Impact of School Factors on School Counselor Burnout: A Mixed-Methods Study

Gerta Bardhoshi, Amy Schweinle and Kelly Duncan
The Professional Counselor (Greensboro, N.C.), Vol.4(5), pp.426-443
2014
DOI: 10.15241/gb.4.5.426
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Abstract

This mixed-methods study investigated the relationship between burnout and performing noncounseling duties among a national sample of professional school counselors, while identifying school factors that could attenuate this relationship. Results of regression analyses indicate that performing noncounseling duties significantly predicted burnout (e.g., exhaustion, negative work environment and deterioration in personal life), and that school factors such as caseload, Adequate Yearly Progress status and level of principal support significantly added to the prediction of burnout over and above noncounseling duties. Moderation tests revealed that Adequate Yearly Progress and caseload moderated the effect of noncounseling duties as related to several burnout dimensions. Participants related their burnout experience to emotional exhaustion, reduced effectiveness, performing noncounseling duties, job dissatisfaction and other school factors. Participants conceptualized noncounseling duties

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