332 The Professional Counselor | Volume 11, Issue 3 nearly 1 in 3 school counselors unprepared to provide suicide prevention services. Crisis intervention fared similarly with 26 school counselors (11.5%) reporting no graduate training and no postgraduate training hours and 41 school counselors (18.1%) reporting no graduate training and 10 or fewer postgraduate training hours. Again, nearly 1 in 3 school counselors were not adequately prepared to provide this important service. Crisis postvention fared the worst, with 80 school counselors (35.4%) reporting that they received no graduate training and no postgraduate training hours, and 46 school counselors (20.4%) reporting no graduate training and fewer than 10 hours of postgraduate training. More than half of the school counselors surveyed are unprepared to face the aftermath of a suicide. Table 1 Graduate Training and Postgraduate Training Hours Number of postgraduate training hours Received graduate training Did not receive graduate training Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage Suicide Prevention 0 hours 30 13.3 25 11.1 1–10 hours 73 32.3 45 19.9 11–50 hours 29 12.8 15 6.6 50 or more hours 8 3.6 1 0.4 Total 140 62.0 86 38.0 Crisis Intervention 0 hours 43 19.0 26 11.5 1–10 hours 69 30.5 41 18.1 11–50 hours 26 11.5 16 7.0 50 or more hours 4 1.8 1 0.4 Total 142 63.0 84 37.0 Suicide Postvention 0 hours 34 15.0 80 35.4 1–10 hours 37 16.4 46 20.4 11–50 hours 12 5.3 11 4.8 50 or more hours 4 1.8 2 0.9 Total 87 38.5 139 61.5 Suicide Exposure and Suicide Assessment Self-Efficacy An ANOVA indicated that school counselors exposed to a student death by suicide had significantly more years of school counseling experience (M = 11.9, SD = 7.87) than school counselors not exposed to a student death by suicide (M = 5.1, SD = 5.56): F(1, 224) = 21.512, p < .001. Controlling for years of school counseling experience as a covariate, an ANCOVA indicated that there was no significant difference
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