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Counseling Scholarship & Practice in Educational Communities (CSPEC) is a peer-reviewed journal with a focus on rigorous empirical, conceptual, and applied scholarship pertaining to mental health, wellness, prevention, education, and career activities that occur in and around preK-12 educational settings. We prioritize work that is pursuant of more equitable and just school and social communities through counseling, collaboration, education, advocacy, systemic change, and research. The review board will consider submissions from various disciplines so long as the work is grounded in the focus of the journal. CSPEC is the official journal of the Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE) at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.

Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

Articles


A Content Analysis of ASCA Ethical Standards between 1972 and 2022

Daniel A. DeCino, Phillip L. Waalkes, W. Bradley McKibben and Emma Johnson

2026-02-04 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

The Development and Validation of the Student Engagement in Social Emotional Learning Skills (SE-SELS) Survey

Lilia Kneidel, Melissa Mariani, Cheolwoo Park, Elizabeth Villares and Hannah Bowers

2026-04-06 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

Self-Compassion as a Contributor to a Positive School Counselor Professional Quality of Life

Laura Barbour and Gene Eakin

2026-04-22 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

School Counselors’ Use of the American School Counselor Association Suicide Concern Information-Gathering Tool:  An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Meredith A Rausch, Laura Gallo and Tyler L Gray

2026-07-16 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

Humanizing Reentry Across Systems: School Counselors Supporting Justice-Involved Youth

Haley R Ault, Henrietta Gantt and Alex Cammarano

2026-07-16 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

The Pen Was the Tool: Using Hip Hop Education to Navigate Antiblackness in K-12 Schools

Ian Levy and Alex Kenney

2026-07-16 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026

Understanding and addressing ambiguous loss in students: Insights from rural school counselors' experiences

Katherine Wood and Alec Porter

2026-08-17 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 2026