Abstract:

The article review discusses three studies that examine the factors lead to burnout which experienced by the school counselor in different time interval. In the Journal School of Counseling article " The voices of High School Counselors: lived experiences of job stress ", Leigh Falls and Mary Nichter (2007) suggested school counselors commonly experience situations of high demand and low control, due to the complex and diverse nature of the work they perform. In the NCSU libraries article, "Counseling Matters: a multi-case study of high school counselors and their role in the school community", as the findings of Michelle Hurt Windle (2009) suggested that high school counselors had experience an overloaded with noncounseling related duties and expected to serve far too many students. The results presented by Michael Moyer (2011) in the Journal of School Counseling article "Effects of nonguidance activities, supervision, and the ratios of student-to-counselor school counselor burnout, indicated that the greater amount of time spent on non-guidance duties, the greater it significantly affects school counselor burnout. Also, school counselors often experience of low self-efficacy due to lack of support, role ambiguity, role conflicts and workloads which caused burnout from the school counselors' profession. All of the article imply that several factors such as large caseloads, role ambiguity, non-guidance activities and lack of time spent on counseling duties lead to burnout. All of the article imply that several factors such as large caseloads, role ambiguity, non-guidance activities and lack of time spent on counseling duties lead to burnout. Most of the studies presented the same factors in different period that confirmed the causes of school counselor burnout. Each study has weakness that include bias, contradiction and limits of the study.

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