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Article: Cross-gender interactions in middle school counselor-student working alliances: challenges and recommendations.(school counseling)
- Article from:
- Professional School Counseling
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
- Author:
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Middle school counselors are involved in cross-gender interactions with students daily. In order to explore middle school counselors' experiences in cross-gender student-counselor working alliances, interviews were conducted with 22 practicing middle school counselors. Selections from the resulting conversations reveal that female and male middle school counselors describe their same-gender counselor-student relationships as less challenging and perceive more challenges in their cross-gender relationships in school counseling. Recommendations are offered for cross-gender relationship building for middle school counselors working with students.
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