Abstract
Aims: The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive picture of the nature and outcomes of counselling in secondary schools in the UK. Method: Audit and evaluation studies of schools counselling were identified using a systematic literature search. Thirty studies were found and analysed using a variety of methods. Typically, counselling services provided purely person-centred, or person-centred-based, forms of therapy. Results: Averaged across all studies, clients had a mean age of 13.86 and attended for 6.35 sessions of counselling. The average percentage of female clients per study was 56.31%. Most frequently, clients presented with family issues, with anger issues particularly prevalent in males. Around 60% of clients began counselling with ‘abnormal’ or borderline levels of psychological distress. Counselling was associated with large improvements in mental health (mean weighted effect size = 0.81), with around 50% of clinically distressed clients demonstrating clinical
| Original language | Undefined |
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| Pages (from-to) | 137 - 150 |
| Journal | Counselling and Psychotherapy Research |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- school counseling, UK secondary schools, 2009, School Counseling, Secondary Education, 2009