Master of Arts (Counselling & Guidance)

The dissertation investigated the impact of group supervision in enhancing school counsellors’ professionalism and self-efficacy in Singapore. In the aspect of professionalism, it specifically explored the impact structured group supervision has, firstly, on counsellors’ competence in micro and macro-counselling skills; and secondly, their work commitment in school counselling. The study also investigated the relations between these three variables: counselling competence, work commitment and self-efficacy. A total of 21 school counsellors with minimum of six months of counselling experience in a school context, and together with one qualified counselling supervisor, participated in the study. A structured questionnaire, with three different scales, was devised to measure school counsellors’ counselling competence, work commitment and counselling self-efficacy, using Likert-type scales as the response format for all scale items. Overall, the results indicated that structured group supervision for school counsellors has enhanced their professionalism and self-efficacy. Specifically, counselling competence and self-efficacy have significantly increased after the supervision process, while work commitment has a non-significant increase. Furthermore, there was a strong correlation between counselling self-efficacy and competence, while the study showed work commitment has a moderate correlation with counselling competence and self-efficacy.