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What Is Counseling Self-Efficacy?

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promotes low job satisfaction among members of the organization. Low job satisfaction is highly correlated to low organizational commitment and high level of turnover intention (Kanwar, Singh & Kodwani, 2013). Lack of support from supervisors, stress and burnout are the common issues faced by working adults at the workplace (Skinner & Roche, 2005). It is however, interesting to note that counselors, whose jobs involved providing emotional guidance and relief to clients, experience similar challenges at their workplace, especially in term of receiving sufficient support from their supervisor (Rugg, Schulz, Fagan & Rhodes, 1989). Counselors reported to suffer closed to twice psychological distress compared to non-counselors (Ghahramanlou & Brodbeck, …show more content…

As postulated by Lunenburg (2011), when there is limited resources in staff professional development, individual with high self-efficacy shall be given first priority as compared to those with low self-efficacy. Consequently, it is essential for researchers to identify the sources of counseling self-efficacy to promote counselor education preparation and professional …show more content…

The redefinition includes three main areas: academic related issues (study techniques), career guidance and development issues (career assessment and future career pathway) and, psychosocial and mental health related issues (personality assessment, self-enrichment and development programs). Within the three main areas, twenty four tasks were identified. Throughout the years, the school counselor’s areas of responsibilities have increased tremendously and required robust strategic planning and management of resources. The defined roles also required the school counselors to be equipped and well trained in the respective areas of responsibilities. While job stress was reported to inversely affect job satisfaction among financial counselors (Griffiths, Baxter, & Townley-Jones, 2011), what are the keys to increase self-efficacy, job satisfaction and organizational commitment of the school

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