T?RK?Y'DK? RHBRL?K H?ZMTLR?N?N TAR?HSL GL???M?

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">In this study, the development and the situation of the guidance and physiological counseling in Turkey, which is a professional help service, will be examined. Turkish ducation System included guidance services in the 1950s in line with the developments in the world. Afterwards, the importance and the necessity of the guidance has been emphasized in the National ducation Congress and in the Development Plans. Guidance Services were established in the 1970s, universities started to educate the people as experts in the 1980s and the experts on the branches started to discuss the problems of the field in an organized way. As above examples point out, important developments and improvements have been carried out in the last 50 years. ven though there are some important developments, some problems are still up-to-date in maintaining the Guidance Services. Some of these are as follows: the lack or insufficient number of psychological consultants in every school, the inconvenience of the working conditions, the ambiguity of the standards of the profession, not having sufficient help skills related to different problems, the ambiguity in staff recruitment for the field in terms of professional title and identity.</p>