Counselors' ındividual counseling practices and their perceptions of their efficiencies in these practices

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze psychological counselors’ practices of individual psychological counseling and their perception of competence in these practices. 344 psychological counselors constitute the participants of the research. Frequency, percentage, chi square statistics and content analysis were utilized in this research. According to the obtained results, it was found that a large majority of psychological counselors had counselling practice as a counselor during their education; most of them received feedback within the master-apprentice (supervision) relationship; most of them did individual counselling in their workplace; most of them perceived themselves as competent in doing individual counseling and most of them did not participate in training courses related to individual counselling. Also, in their suggestions for the improvement of individual psychological counselling, it was seen that counselors emphasized main themes such as Ministry of National Education (MNE), the University, School and Psychological counselor. Obtained findings were discussed in the light of the related body of literature and suggestions were made.