2016 Volume 2016 Issue 26 Pages 595-609
The purpose of present study was to clarify issues relating to student counseling institution without full-time counselors for discussing future directions. Studies of trends in the number of sessions were carried out on a student counseling room of X university. First, the total number of sessions, the number of clients, and the change of the number of counselors per year were investigated, based on annual reports of the Health Care Center and conference reports. Next, the change of the developmental level of student counseling services was evaluated using “the assessment lists of development for counseling centers (Fukumori et al., 2014)”. Last, interviews with other faculty and staff were conducted to understand situations at each period.The developmental level of counseling services in X university showed being “Somewhat satisfied (level 3)” at 10-years, and the requirements as counseling services were satisfied (the 1st period). The total number of sessions was "upward rise" at 11 to 25-years (the 2nd period). However, when counselor with fixed-term-employment worked, the total number of sessions was "short-term increase-and-decrease" at 27-years (the 3rd period). Previous study showed “Satisfied” after being "upward rise", but the developmental level of student counseling services in X university maintain “Somewhat satisfied (level 3)” over 33-years. The factors associated with the above-mentioned situation are the management of student counseling room and the relationship with other divisions on campus.From the above, there were several issues relating to student counseling institution without full-time counselors: a) variable trend of total number of session per year, b) stagnation in the development of student counseling services, c) closed systems of student counseling institutions. For future research, it would be useful to collect more data using a prospective study for generalization.
