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Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1771-1768

Author Biographies

Dr. Karlesia Montague (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Counselor Education program and Director of Addiction Studies at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). She has a Ph.D in Counselor Education and Supervision from UNCC. Her research interests include suicide prevention, crisis counseling preparation, and forensic mental health counseling.

Dr. Christina Barksdale, LCSWA (she/her/her) is the author of "Make It Home," a children's book dedicated to Black and Brown youth. She has a Doctorate in Social Work and serves as the MSW Director of Practicum Education in the School of Social Work at Fayetteville State. Her research interests include foster care, working with children, and investing in the future of the social work profession.

Crystal Speaks, Ed.S (she/her/hers) is a Doctoral Student in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). She has five years of experience as a school counselor working at all three levels in rural and urban communities. Her research interests include suicide prevention, play therapy in racial minority communities, advocating for and improving the work of school counselors, and mental health concerns among Black/ African American youth.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc070bot

Abstract

Collaboration is an ethical duty of school-based professionals and essential to addressing student needs and maximizing student success. This phenomenological qualitative research study explored the collaborative experiences between school counselors, school-based mental health counselors (SBMHCs), and school social workers. Through semi-structured interviews, we examined the experiences of 12 practicing school-based professionals. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), we identified five group experiential themes: (a) it takes a village, (b) factors that influence collaboration, (c) advantages of teamwork, (d) challenges in collaborating, and (e) recommendations to improve collaborative practices. Implications for graduate training programs and recommendations for future research studies are discussed.

Public Significance Statement

Collaboration is an ethical duty of school-based professionals working in K-12 schools and enables student success. However, literature has focused solely on collaboration between school counselors and teachers, school counselors and principals, school counselors and clinical mental health counselors, and school counselors and school psychologists. This study adds to the literature by exploring the collaborative experiences between school counselors, school-based mental health counselors, and school social workers.

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