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National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2011
What happens when school personnel, or family members of one's students are laid off, are out of work for months, and their unemployment insurance ends? What happens when students complain that they can't find after-school or summer jobs? When these things occur, people worry about what will happen to them and to those they care about. Students…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Adolescents, Job Layoff, Insurance
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Frydenberg, Erica; Lewis, Ramon – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2009
Research with adults over the last 20 years indicates that people who see themselves as less efficient problem-solvers use more maladaptive coping strategies. This study of two independent data sets totalling almost 2000 adolescents examined this possibility by correlating adolescents' self-perceived efficacy at problem-solving with their usage of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Adolescents, Coping, Self Efficacy
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Tong, Yuehua; Song, Shanggui – College Student Journal, 2004
The present study was to examine the characteristics of general self-efficacy and subjective well-being and their relations in low SES college students in China. Low SES college students and regular college students were administered the General Self-Efficacy Scale and Index of Well-Being, Index of General Affect. Low SES college students scored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Self Efficacy, Life Satisfaction
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Frydenberg, Erica; Lewis, Ramon; Bugalski, Kerry; Cotta, Amanda; McCarthy, Cathy; Luscombe-Smith, Neringa; Poole, Charles – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2004
Children and adolescents today face a plethora of stressful problems, including family and relationship conflict, death of close family members or friends, and academic and social pressures. Such problems have been found to contribute to an increased risk of various emotional-social-cognitive difficulties in adolescence. These include academic…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Secondary Education, Adolescents, Stress Management
US Agency for International Development, 2009
The Doorways training program was designed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Safe Schools Program (Safe Schools) to enable teachers, community members and students to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Doorways II was designed for community counselors to prevent and respond to…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Definitions
Kottler, Jeffrey A., Ed. – 1997
This book is a collection of essays published in a column in "Counseling Today", the newspaper of the American Counseling Association. These essays are written by various counselors who relate their successes, challenges, doubts, and failures; they describe some of the personal issues involved in counseling practice that are rarely discussed.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Burnout, Coping, Counseling