Patrick Akos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1041570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Akos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Akos |
| SIGNATURE | AKOS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6710-5902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Relationship Between Work Study and Career Development for Undergraduate Students
One route toward career preparation for college students comes from work experience. Internships demonstrate benefits, but there is limited inquiry on the career development benefits of Federal Work Study (FWS). Archival data from nearly 600 students at one Southeastern research I institution suggest a significant and positive relationship between FWS participation and career clarity, decisiveness, and satisfaction. We outline the opportunity for…
Utilizing Latinx Cultural Wealth to Create a College-Going Culture in High School
Capitalizing on Latinx students' aspirational, linguistic, social, navigational, familial, resistant, perseverant, and spiritual community cultural wealth (CCW) can help school counselors empower Latinx students. We outline and integrate critical race theory and CCW and demonstrate how communities of color bring assets and protective factors with them to their educational settings. We also examine how school counselors can utilize these eight for…
The Challenge and Opportunity of Competency-Based Counselor Education
There is increased responsibility for programs to demonstrate evidence of student learning and skill. Application of competency-based education is delineated, including prior learning assessment and personalized learning. Implications such as awarding credit for experience in admissions or variable clinical training timelines and requirements are explored
Promoting School Valuing Through Career Relevant Instruction
The relationship between relevance in the curriculum and student engagement has received increased attention in education, particularly for students from low-income families. Seen as an answer to high school drop-out rates, efforts at relevance (e.g., career academies) have proliferated in high schools. However, earlier interventions in the middle grades are needed to prevent school disengagement. In this inquiry, we examine the change in valuing…
Sociodemographic Moderators of Middle School Transition Effects on Academic Achievement
The academic impact of the transition from elementary to middle school has significant consequences for many early adolescents. This study examines academic growth across the transition, as well as sociodemographic moderators. Rather than defining the transition effect as a decline in student achievement between fifth and sixth grade, these data demonstrate the transition effect as an interruption in students’ growth in achievement during this in…
Advancing Academic Achievement Through Career Relevance in the Middle Grades: A Longitudinal Evaluation of CareerStart
Research and theory suggest that students learn more effectively when they perceive course content as relevant to their futures. The current research assessed the impact of CareerStart, a middle grades instructional strategy designed to advance the occupational relevance of what students are being taught in the core subjects—math, science, language arts, and social studies. CareerStart was introduced randomly in 7 of 14 middle schools in a divers…
Preparing School Counselors to Promote Academic Development
Reform in school counseling over the last decade has focused on how school counselors can contribute to the academic development of K-12 students. Consensus in this matter has yet to be achieved, and recommendations about how best to prepare preservice K-12 school counselors for this objective have been incomplete. The authors describe content and supervised experiences from a preservice course designed to prepare school counselors to promote stu…
Racial Identity Development in Middle School: A Case for School Counselor Individual and Systemic Intervention
In middle school, counselors should promote optimal development as students navigate the formative stage of puberty. A search for identity is an important developmental task in early adolescence, but school counselors often neglect racial identity development. Through an actual case of an 8th‐grade student, both individual and systemic strategies that can promote racial identity development are highlighted
Cacrep's Relevance to Professionalism for School Counselor Educators
Archival data from 1994 to 2003 were used to examine the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program's (CACREP) association with professionalism for school counselor educators. Indicators of professionalism included school counselor educators' contributions to the profession (i.e., journal publications and conference presentations), leadership in professional organizations, and pursuit of counseling credentials. Data a…
Déjà Vu and Moving the Conversation: Reactions to an Underutilized Partnership
Romano and Kachgal argue for greater collaboration between counseling psychology and school counseling. Although their proposal has considerable merit, a variety of barriers to collaboration—including professional jealousies and turf, the lack of knowledge and interest of most counseling psychologists in schools, and the availability of benefits to sustain the partnership for all parties—must be addressed. We argue that adopting shared conceptual…
Training School Counselors as Developmental Advocates
Counselor educators continue to debate the persistent questions of the role and function of the school counselor. School counselor education faculty can address the issue of the school counselor's role by using contemporary developmental research to train counseling students to serve as developmental advocates. The primary role of a developmental advocate is to promote positive student developmental outcomes and the research-identified types of e…
An Examination of the Clinical Preparation of School Counselors
Clinical training is considered the capstone experience (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, 2001) for preservice counselors. This exploratory study examined pedagogical practice for clinical preparation in a purposeful sample of 59 school counseling internship syllabi. A qualitative analysis revealed wide diversity in content regarding supervision, student assignments, and, in particular, on-site requirement…
Preparing School Counselors to Work With Students With Disabilities
Recent literature has demonstrated increasing roles for school counselors who work with students with disabilities, but it has also suggested that school counselors are not being adequately prepared to work with these students. In this research study, the authors investigated current courses and experiences focusing on disabilities offered in school counselor education programs. Results from the 137 participants suggest that school counselor educ…
Counselor Educators' Strategies for Success
Fourteen counselor educators identified strategies for research, teaching, and service activities. Responses were analyzed for themes, which were presented as recommendations for counselor educators. Recommendations included developing a disciplined, focused, and collaborative approach to research. Strategies for effective teaching included using multiple teaching methods, taking a student-centered approach, and keeping current in one's field. Re…
Sociodemographic Moderators of Middle School Transition Effects on Academic Achievement
The academic impact of the transition from elementary to middle school has significant consequences for many early adolescents. This study examines academic growth across the transition, as well as sociodemographic moderators. Rather than defining the transition effect as a decline in student achievement between fifth and sixth grade, these data demonstrate the transition effect as an interruption in students’ growth in achievement during this in…
An Examination of the Clinical Preparation of School Counselors
Clinical training is considered the capstone experience (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, 2001) for preservice counselors. This exploratory study examined pedagogical practice for clinical preparation in a purposeful sample of 59 school counseling internship syllabi. A qualitative analysis revealed wide diversity in content regarding supervision, student assignments, and, in particular, on-site requirement…
Utilizing Latinx Cultural Wealth to Create a College-Going Culture in High School
Capitalizing on Latinx students' aspirational, linguistic, social, navigational, familial, resistant, perseverant, and spiritual community cultural wealth (CCW) can help school counselors empower Latinx students. We outline and integrate critical race theory and CCW and demonstrate how communities of color bring assets and protective factors with them to their educational settings. We also examine how school counselors can utilize these eight for…
Counselor Educators' Strategies for Success
Fourteen counselor educators identified strategies for research, teaching, and service activities. Responses were analyzed for themes, which were presented as recommendations for counselor educators. Recommendations included developing a disciplined, focused, and collaborative approach to research. Strategies for effective teaching included using multiple teaching methods, taking a student-centered approach, and keeping current in one's field. Re…
Advancing Academic Achievement Through Career Relevance in the Middle Grades: A Longitudinal Evaluation of CareerStart
Research and theory suggest that students learn more effectively when they perceive course content as relevant to their futures. The current research assessed the impact of CareerStart, a middle grades instructional strategy designed to advance the occupational relevance of what students are being taught in the core subjects—math, science, language arts, and social studies. CareerStart was introduced randomly in 7 of 14 middle schools in a divers…
Preparing School Counselors to Work With Students With Disabilities
Recent literature has demonstrated increasing roles for school counselors who work with students with disabilities, but it has also suggested that school counselors are not being adequately prepared to work with these students. In this research study, the authors investigated current courses and experiences focusing on disabilities offered in school counselor education programs. Results from the 137 participants suggest that school counselor educ…
The Challenge and Opportunity of Competency-Based Counselor Education
There is increased responsibility for programs to demonstrate evidence of student learning and skill. Application of competency-based education is delineated, including prior learning assessment and personalized learning. Implications such as awarding credit for experience in admissions or variable clinical training timelines and requirements are explored
Racial Identity Development in Middle School: A Case for School Counselor Individual and Systemic Intervention
In middle school, counselors should promote optimal development as students navigate the formative stage of puberty. A search for identity is an important developmental task in early adolescence, but school counselors often neglect racial identity development. Through an actual case of an 8th‐grade student, both individual and systemic strategies that can promote racial identity development are highlighted
Déjà Vu and Moving the Conversation: Reactions to an Underutilized Partnership
Romano and Kachgal argue for greater collaboration between counseling psychology and school counseling. Although their proposal has considerable merit, a variety of barriers to collaboration—including professional jealousies and turf, the lack of knowledge and interest of most counseling psychologists in schools, and the availability of benefits to sustain the partnership for all parties—must be addressed. We argue that adopting shared conceptual…
Training School Counselors as Developmental Advocates
Counselor educators continue to debate the persistent questions of the role and function of the school counselor. School counselor education faculty can address the issue of the school counselor's role by using contemporary developmental research to train counseling students to serve as developmental advocates. The primary role of a developmental advocate is to promote positive student developmental outcomes and the research-identified types of e…
Counselor Educators' Strategies for Success
Fourteen counselor educators identified strategies for research, teaching, and service activities. Responses were analyzed for themes, which were presented as recommendations for counselor educators. Recommendations included developing a disciplined, focused, and collaborative approach to research. Strategies for effective teaching included using multiple teaching methods, taking a student-centered approach, and keeping current in one's field. Re…
Preparing School Counselors to Work With Students With Disabilities
Recent literature has demonstrated increasing roles for school counselors who work with students with disabilities, but it has also suggested that school counselors are not being adequately prepared to work with these students. In this research study, the authors investigated current courses and experiences focusing on disabilities offered in school counselor education programs. Results from the 137 participants suggest that school counselor educ…
Déjà Vu and Moving the Conversation: Reactions to an Underutilized Partnership
Romano and Kachgal argue for greater collaboration between counseling psychology and school counseling. Although their proposal has considerable merit, a variety of barriers to collaboration—including professional jealousies and turf, the lack of knowledge and interest of most counseling psychologists in schools, and the availability of benefits to sustain the partnership for all parties—must be addressed. We argue that adopting shared conceptual…
Training School Counselors as Developmental Advocates
Counselor educators continue to debate the persistent questions of the role and function of the school counselor. School counselor education faculty can address the issue of the school counselor's role by using contemporary developmental research to train counseling students to serve as developmental advocates. The primary role of a developmental advocate is to promote positive student developmental outcomes and the research-identified types of e…
An Examination of the Clinical Preparation of School Counselors
Clinical training is considered the capstone experience (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, 2001) for preservice counselors. This exploratory study examined pedagogical practice for clinical preparation in a purposeful sample of 59 school counseling internship syllabi. A qualitative analysis revealed wide diversity in content regarding supervision, student assignments, and, in particular, on-site requirement…
Cacrep's Relevance to Professionalism for School Counselor Educators
Archival data from 1994 to 2003 were used to examine the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program's (CACREP) association with professionalism for school counselor educators. Indicators of professionalism included school counselor educators' contributions to the profession (i.e., journal publications and conference presentations), leadership in professional organizations, and pursuit of counseling credentials. Data a…
Racial Identity Development in Middle School: A Case for School Counselor Individual and Systemic Intervention
In middle school, counselors should promote optimal development as students navigate the formative stage of puberty. A search for identity is an important developmental task in early adolescence, but school counselors often neglect racial identity development. Through an actual case of an 8th‐grade student, both individual and systemic strategies that can promote racial identity development are highlighted
Preparing School Counselors to Promote Academic Development
Reform in school counseling over the last decade has focused on how school counselors can contribute to the academic development of K-12 students. Consensus in this matter has yet to be achieved, and recommendations about how best to prepare preservice K-12 school counselors for this objective have been incomplete. The authors describe content and supervised experiences from a preservice course designed to prepare school counselors to promote stu…
Advancing Academic Achievement Through Career Relevance in the Middle Grades: A Longitudinal Evaluation of CareerStart
Research and theory suggest that students learn more effectively when they perceive course content as relevant to their futures. The current research assessed the impact of CareerStart, a middle grades instructional strategy designed to advance the occupational relevance of what students are being taught in the core subjects—math, science, language arts, and social studies. CareerStart was introduced randomly in 7 of 14 middle schools in a divers…
Promoting School Valuing Through Career Relevant Instruction
The relationship between relevance in the curriculum and student engagement has received increased attention in education, particularly for students from low-income families. Seen as an answer to high school drop-out rates, efforts at relevance (e.g., career academies) have proliferated in high schools. However, earlier interventions in the middle grades are needed to prevent school disengagement. In this inquiry, we examine the change in valuing…
Sociodemographic Moderators of Middle School Transition Effects on Academic Achievement
The academic impact of the transition from elementary to middle school has significant consequences for many early adolescents. This study examines academic growth across the transition, as well as sociodemographic moderators. Rather than defining the transition effect as a decline in student achievement between fifth and sixth grade, these data demonstrate the transition effect as an interruption in students’ growth in achievement during this in…
The Challenge and Opportunity of Competency-Based Counselor Education
There is increased responsibility for programs to demonstrate evidence of student learning and skill. Application of competency-based education is delineated, including prior learning assessment and personalized learning. Implications such as awarding credit for experience in admissions or variable clinical training timelines and requirements are explored
Utilizing Latinx Cultural Wealth to Create a College-Going Culture in High School
Capitalizing on Latinx students' aspirational, linguistic, social, navigational, familial, resistant, perseverant, and spiritual community cultural wealth (CCW) can help school counselors empower Latinx students. We outline and integrate critical race theory and CCW and demonstrate how communities of color bring assets and protective factors with them to their educational settings. We also examine how school counselors can utilize these eight for…
The Relationship Between Work Study and Career Development for Undergraduate Students
One route toward career preparation for college students comes from work experience. Internships demonstrate benefits, but there is limited inquiry on the career development benefits of Federal Work Study (FWS). Archival data from nearly 600 students at one Southeastern research I institution suggest a significant and positive relationship between FWS participation and career clarity, decisiveness, and satisfaction. We outline the opportunity for…
Psychology (13 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Medical education (9 works) · Counseling Practices and Supervision (8 works) · Higher education (8 works) · Counselor education (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Mathematics education (4 works)