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Blount, Taheera – Journal of School Counseling, 2012
School counselors are charged to identify potential dropouts and they work closely with students to help them stay in school or find alternative means of completing their education. Ninth grade students transitioning to high school experience insurmountable challenges as they shift from middle school to high school. Students who lack the academic…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Risk, Intervention, School Counselors
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Scheel, Michael John; Madabhushi, Soumya; Backhaus, Autumn – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
School dropout is a problem that has distressing personal and societal consequences. Not surprising, students who drop out are typically not academically motivated. This phenomenological study examined the meanings that students construct about academic motivation while participating in a dropout prevention program that primarily uses counseling.…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Self Efficacy, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts