Administrative Support of Counseling Programs: Defining It and Measuring It

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Defining It and Measuring It

It seems that everyone involved with high school counseling programs agrees that having the support of administrators, like principals, superintendents, and other school administrators, is one of the key elements to a successful counseling program. In this paper, such support is described as "administrative support."

Counselors express the need for administrative support in a variety of ways, including conference programs, publications and informal discussions with colleagues. Mayer (1993) showed that principal support can make a difference in the success of counselor-consultants in schools. In stressing the importance of principal support, …