Content analysis of articles on collaboration between counselling professionals and school personnel in American Counseling Association (ACA) journals over the last 15 years

ABSTRACT

This content analysis provides an overview of articles on collaboration between counselling professionals and school personnel published in the 21 American Counseling Association (ACA) journals over the last 15 years. In addition to the number of collaboration-specific articles published each year during this time period, other content areas such as authorship and institutional contributors; type of article, methodology of empirical research, and application settings; target populations; and topics of focus are identified. Recommendations for counselling scholars are provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Content analysis
• collaboration
• counsellors
• school personnel
• mental health‌

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.

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Notes on contributors

Hongryun Woo

Hongryun Woo is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville, USA. She is committed to research on counsellors’/counsellor educators’ professional identity and their development in general.

Allison Fowler

Allison Fowler is a doctoral student at the University of Louisville, USA. Her research interests centre on higher education and educational measurement.

Yoojin Jang

Yoojin Jang is an Associate Professor at Hanyang University in South Korea. His research topics are on psychotherapy processes and outcomes.

Jungnam Kim

Jungnam Kim is an Assistant Professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Her research interests include Asian American student studies.