School Counselors’ Problems, Roles, and Responsibilities

OZEL, DILARA¹, ERDUR- BAKER, ÖZGÜR^1
1Middle East Technical University, METU Faculty of Education, 06600, Ankara

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Room 119, 10-07-2019, 13:30 - 15:00

Keywords

school counselors, responsibilities, burnout, empowering school counselors

Summary

School counseling services included in the curriculum at the 1950s in Turkey. School counselors continue to face problems from different sources and types since then. In addition to school counselors’ Professional problems, students who have primary liability for school counselors have issues and expectations which are growing fastly in accordance with the changing technology, economy, and social situations. The aim of the study is to identify a)school counselors’ problems as professionals, b)students’ problems that they bring to school counselors and c)examine approaches to those problems and discuss those issues in the historical process. This qualitative research includes 15 counselors with semi-structured interviews carried on approximately 45 minutes. It was found that the core factor of these issues is the same; family. One’s psychological situation needs to be evaluated by examining the whole system that they are in as Bronfenbrenner (1994) asserts at his ecological system model. When the school counselors’ problems are examined in the historical process, it was found that the problems they are facing with did not change and also those problems continue increasingly. It was found that school counselors need to be informed about multi-component applications, expanded their awareness and teach some skills about the issue.

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