AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON SCHOOL COUNSELING
From the Viewpoint of the Additional Post and the Liaison of Teachers and Psychotherapists
1994 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 298-305
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1994 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 298-305
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the issue concerning school counseling, from the mutual images for both teachers and psychotherapists. A questionnaire (SD method scales for two images, and free description questions about the school counseling), was administered to 247 teachers and 68 psychotherapists.
The results showed that there were qualitative and quantitative differences between the image of teachers and psychotherapists. Moreover, a psychotherapists' image of teachers was onephasic, with a severe and authoritative feature. Teachers and psychotherapists had a common opinion: it was ideal to have experts in counseling in all schools. But, as a second opinion, while teachers supported the additional post of counseling by teachers themselves, psychotherapists thought that experts from outside the school were better. The results suggested that the differences of opinion depended on whether teachers and psychotherapists regarded the additional post of counseling by teachers possible and desirable.
