“What do you do again?”: Role Conflict, Job Stress, and Burnout in Professional School Counselors
Location
Counselor Roles and Relationships (Session 1 Breakouts)
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
Professional school counselors (PSC) have the opportunity to impact the lives of students of all ages and many factors influence a counselor’s ability to serve his/her students. Although PSC roles are clarified by American School Counselor Association, professional school counselors perform roles that are incompatible with their training. They can experience feelings of burnout, with non-counseling duties as a contributing factor. This study aims to examine the relationships between role conflict/role ambiguity and job stress experienced by school counselors that leads to instances of burnout. Research indicates that there is a connection between these factors and burnout, among other personal and organizational factors.
Keywords
burnout, school counseling, role conflict, ASCA, job stress
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Recommended Citation
Lyle, Jesyca Z., "“What do you do again?”: Role Conflict, Job Stress, and Burnout in Professional School Counselors" (2020). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 4.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2020/2020/4
“What do you do again?”: Role Conflict, Job Stress, and Burnout in Professional School Counselors
Counselor Roles and Relationships (Session 1 Breakouts)
Professional school counselors (PSC) have the opportunity to impact the lives of students of all ages and many factors influence a counselor’s ability to serve his/her students. Although PSC roles are clarified by American School Counselor Association, professional school counselors perform roles that are incompatible with their training. They can experience feelings of burnout, with non-counseling duties as a contributing factor. This study aims to examine the relationships between role conflict/role ambiguity and job stress experienced by school counselors that leads to instances of burnout. Research indicates that there is a connection between these factors and burnout, among other personal and organizational factors.
