The impressions of school managers on psychological counseling and guidance services: A descriptional study

Bedri Yavuz Hatunoğlu

African Educational Research Journal
Published: February 26 2021
Volume 9, Issue 1
Pages 160-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.91.21.021

Abstract

School guidance and counselling is a programme that is complementary to the education process and is seen as a support service for the pupil. The aim of this study is to examine the primary school administrators' views on psychological counseling and guidance services in their schools. The research was carried out with 20 school principals and vice principals who have been working in schools for at least one year with a psychological counselor. In the study, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers was used as a data collection tool. Considering the field studies, studies were carried out on three main principles: educational guidance, personal / social guidance, and vocational guidance, and three categories of studies, evaluations and suggestions for each theme. According to the findings, school guidance services were it is not considered sufficient in many respects and it is emphasized that the system has deficits. The main deficiencies mentioned can be expressed as the lack of expert personnel in the field, problems arising from infrastructure and central structure and equipment.

Keywords: School administrators, guidance services, school counselors, qualitative research.

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