TPC Journal V7, Issue 3 - FULL ISSUE

The Professional Counselor | Volume 7, Issue 3 243 Results RQ1: What are school counselors’ levels of self-efficacy in career counseling? Overall, middle school counselors who participated in this study were moderately confident, confident, or highly confident in their ability to provide career counseling services. According to the CCSES-Modified, counselors felt least confident in the subscales of Multicultural Competency Skills and Current Trends in the World of Work, Ethics, and Career Research, while they reported the most confidence in their Therapeutic Process and Alliance Skills. Specific areas of school counselor self- efficacy deficits were related to special issues present for lesbian, gay, and bisexual students in the workplace and in career decision-making, as well as special issues related to gender and ethnicity in the workplace and in career decision-making. Table 1 provides descriptive statistics and reliability for each subscale and the total scale. Table 1 Career Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale-Modified Subscale Scores (N = 143) Subscales Min Max M SD α Item M Item SD Therapeutic Process and Alliance Skills 21 40 35.24 4.05 0.82 3.52 0.40 (10 items) Vocational Assessment and Interpretation Skills 5 24 18.08 4.21 0.86 3.01 0.70 (6 items) Multicultural Competency Skills 0 24 16.52 4.79 0.91 2.75 0.80 (6 items) Current Trends in the World of Work, Ethics, and Career Research (3 items) 3 12 8.09 2.44 0.75 2.69 0.81 Total Scale Total Instrument Score (25 items) 32 99 77.94 13.60 0.94 3.12 0.54 Note. 1 = Not Confident and 4 = Highly Confident. The means and standard deviations for the SCSE-Subscale are listed in Table 2. On average, participants were confident or highly confident in their abilities to attend to student career and academic development.