Professional Issues in Counseling as Perceived by Individuals Working in Counseling Settings
Abstract
Starting from the 1950’s, pioneers of the field of psychological counseling and guidance attempted to establish the profession within Turkey’s educational system. Despite extreme challenges faced, the efforts of last 60 years have resulted in considerable gains. The profession has accumulated sufficient degree of growth that its members have come to consider expanding its boundaries so as to provide room for the emergence of other areas of counseling such as marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling. On the other hand, the issues faced decades ago seem to continue challenging counselors today. Despite all the developments in the profession, essential issues continue confronting its members on a daily basis. The purpose of this study was to obtain psychological counselors’ opinions and perceptions on their professional difficulties, areas of strength and weaknesses, their evaluation of the undergraduate education they received and issues positively and negatively affecting their job satisfaction. Participants of the study were 108 counselors working at various settings. A questionnaire developed by the researchers was used for data collection. Content analysis was used for data analysis. Results showed that most of the issues reported by counselors were associated with the Ministry of National Education and with other employees of the educational system. Results, limitations of the study and implications for counselor education were discussed.
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Primary Language
Turkish
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Journal Section
Conference Paper
Publication Date
June 17, 2012
Submission Date
March 22, 2012
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 1 Number: 23