Assessed nature of school counselors' involvement in school discipline process. Findings from 160 elementary and secondary school counselors in 3 states revealed that the respondents were highly involved in the discipline process in their schools. On the whole, direct service response was most frequently used to deal with this involvement.…

Role definition has historically been a problem for the school counselor. It seems critical that role definitions continue to be developed, measured, and disseminated. This study is concerned with an initial psychometric analysis of an instrument, The Counselor Role Inventory (CRI). The CRI contains 20 questions on a 5-point Likert-type scale. The…

This paper describes a study examining differences between rural counselors and principals. The study used the Counselor Role Inventory (CRI) to look at 105 Western schools which had a single counselor-principal pair. Sixteen survey questions were consolidated into four role functions: prevention, remediation, commitment, and sub-professional…

This study is designed to gauge the impact that school reform and restructuring is having on the functions of school counselors. It explores how school counselors will work as the new century begins, and projects how changes in roles and responsibilities may impact school counselor training programs. The Delphi research method was used to forecast…