The effect of Structured Peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of school counselor burnout

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2004
Çoban (Esen), Aysel
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Structured Peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of school counselors' burnout, namely, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. Pretest and posttest experimental control group design was used to investigate the effect of the Structured peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of burnout. To determine the percipients of the experimental and control groups Maslach Burnout Inventory was administered 55 out of a total 96 school counselors in gaziantep. 8 counselors who had higher than means score in the different dimensions of burnout participated voluntarily in the Structured Peer Consultation program as an experimental group. 8 counselors were selected as a control group. While the program was being applied to the experimental group, the control group did not receive any treatment. The Structured Peer Consultation Program continued for five weeks. In the program the meetings were held once a week and lasted for 90 minutes. One-way analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test for significant treatment effect of the Structured Peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of burnout. The result of ANCOVA indicated that ANCOVAs examining treatment effect were significant on dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment of burnout. It seems that there was a significant improvement in the experimental group's burnout level compared to the control group's burnout level. At the end of the study the findings were discussed with the relevant studies and recommendations were presented.

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A. Çoban (Esen), “The effect of Structured Peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of school counselor burnout,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2004.