VOLUNTARILY ORGANIZED SYMPOSIUM IV EDUCATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING

Abstract

The purposes of a school counseling have been guidance and psychotherapy, but research added a new function, that is education. The aim of this symposium was to clarify this new function in school education.
It is believed that the principles of counseling such as resepect to human potentiality, self observation, self exploration, self realization, self insight, and the changes of attitude and personality together with the change of behaviors will becomer the new purposes of school education. The principles and methods attached to those new aims were studied in this symposium. The ways to apply the principles of counseling to teaching methods and to effective study were also discussed in this symposium.
The student learning activities to which the principles of group and behavioral counseling were also discussed in this symposium. The participants expressed their opinions and made questions to the proposers. The number of participants was about fifty.