A person-centered humanistic approach to performing evidence-based school counseling research

ABSTRACT

The authors propose a process for school counseling researchers to conduct evidence-based research consistent to the person-centered humanistic perspective. Informed by three tenets for research, including relationship building in the school community, the use of moderators pertaining to the student and the therapeutic relationship, and valuing contextual-hermeneutical interpretations over objectivity in the interpretation and reporting of results.

KEYWORDS:

• school counseling
• evidence based-research
• person-centered