Counseling Confidence in Preservice and Early Career Speech-Language Pathologists.
Purpose: Effective counseling skills are included in standards of practice by speech-language pathology accrediting and training programs, although many speech-language pathologists (SLPs) continue to report a lack of skills in this area. The purpose of this study was to determine whether SLP gradua...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 1027 - 1039 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Oct2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=172961348&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 172961348 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 2381473X KTSD jtl: Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups issn: 2381473X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2023 vid: 8 iid: 5 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association place: Rockville, Maryland artinfo: ui: 172961348 172961348 172961348 10.1044/2023_PERSP-22-00224 172961348 ppf: 1027 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Counseling Confidence in Preservice and Early Career Speech-Language Pathologists. aug: au: Johnson, Leslie W. Hall, Kellyn D. affil: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, North Carolina Central University, Durham sug: subj: Students, Graduate Students, Speech-Language Pathology Speech-Language Pathologists Counseling Education Confidence Evaluation Clinical Competence Evaluation Human Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software T-Tests Male Female Young Adult Adult Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Purpose: Effective counseling skills are included in standards of practice by speech-language pathology accrediting and training programs, although many speech-language pathologists (SLPs) continue to report a lack of skills in this area. The purpose of this study was to determine whether SLP graduate students and early career SLPs who have taken a dedicated counseling course report higher levels of confidence in counseling skills than those whose counseling training was infused across the curriculum. A secondary aim was to determine which specific counseling skills have the strongest relationship with completing a counseling course. Method: A survey, adapted from the Counselor Activity Self-Efficacy Scales for Speech-Language Pathologists, was used to gather information from SLP graduate students and early career SLPs using nonprobability sampling. Data were analyzed from 140 surveys. Research questions were answered descriptively and with independent-samples t tests. Correlation analysis was used to determine which counseling skills were linked with completion of a dedicated counseling course. Results: Participants who completed a counseling course reported significantly increased confidence across all counseling domains assessed: Helping Skills Exploration, Helping Skills Action, Helping Skills Insight, Emotional Support Skills, and Session Management. Twenty-six counseling skills were significantly correlated to completing a counseling course. Regardless of educational approach, confidence in personal adjustment counseling skills was lower than that in informational counseling skills. However, personal adjustment counseling skills confidence was significantly higher for participants who had completed a dedicated course. Conclusions: Overall, the findings of this study suggest that dedicating a course to the education and training of counseling skills in graduate programs may be beneficial. Implications of these findings for clinical applications and future directions in training are discussed. Spillers (2007) posited that the therapeutic process takes a client on two simultaneous journeys. The first is more overt and one in which the speech-language pathologist (SLP) actively leads and engages the client with the remediation of communication and/or swallowing disorders. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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