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    VISTAS Online is an innovative publication produced for ACA by Dr. Garry R. Walz and Dr. Jeanne C. Bleuer of Counseling Outfitters, LLC. Its purpose is to provide a means of capturing the ideas, information and experiences generated by the annual ACA Conference and selected ACA Division Conferences. Papers on a program or practice that has been validated through research or experience may also be submitted. This digital collection of peer-reviewed articles is authored by counselors, for counselors. VISTAS Online contains the full text of over 900 proprietary counseling articles published from 2004 to 2017.


    Counselor’s Crisis Self-Efficacy Scale: A Validation Study

    Michelle Peters, Cheryl Sawyer, and Jana Willis

    2017

    Nearly every day, news reports cover new major local, state, national, and international crisis situations. A purposeful sample of 171 master’s-levelcounseling students was administered the Counselor’s Crisis Self-Efficacy Scale (CCSES) prior to and following the completion of a crises intervention preparation course for mental health responders. The purpose of this research study was two-fold: (a) validate the CCSES and (b) examine the influence of a course in crises intervention on the preparedness of beginning counselors’
    perceived self-efficacy. Findings indicated that the CCSES was a valid and reliable instrument and counseling students had greater levels of crisis self-efficacy following participation in the crises intervention course.
    Keywords: beginning counselors, counselor training, crisis intervention, crisis curriculum, crisis preparedness, crisis self-efficacy

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