School Counseling Interns' Lived Experiences Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

DOI

10.7290/tsc030307

Publication Title

Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Volume

3

Issue

3

Pages

7

Abstract

This phenomenological study explores school counselors in training (SCITs’) experiences addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), the leading causes of educational and wellness inequities. Interviews with eight SCITs revealed three core themes: (1) professional identity conflict between awareness, skills, and action; (2) social justice knowledge to practice gap; and (3) recommendations for knowledge to practice gap resolution. Themes explained participant preparedness for responding to disparities. Participants were aware of challenges related to SDOH, though struggled with addressing those challenges due to lack of preparation or perceived role constraints. Participants also experienced difficulty practically applying their understanding of social justice theory to SDOH-related challenges. The researchers noted various recommendations for how SDOH may be addressed in the counselor education curriculum and in practice.

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Authors agree to publish and distribute an article accepted for publication in Teaching and Supervision in Counseling as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed. The authors retain the copyright to their published article.

ORCID

0000-0002-0889-2109 (Gantt), 0009-0002-5511-8965 (Preston)

Original Publication Citation

Gantt, Alexandra C.; Johnson, Kaprea F.; Preston, Judith W.; Suggs, Brittany G.; and Cannedy, Megan (2021). School counseling interns’ lived experiences addressing social determinants of health, Teaching and Supervision in Counseling, 3(3), Article 7.
https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc030307
Available at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/tsc/vol3/iss3/7

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