The Opinions of School Psychological Counselors about Planning of Guidance Services under the E-Guidance Module

The purpose of the current study is to determine the opinions of school psychological counselors about the process of counseling services plan preparation issued and implemented for the first time in 2017-2018 school years. The current study employed the phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods. An interview form made up of five questions was prepared to reveal the experiences of the school psychological counselors in the process of preparing the 2017-2018 counseling services plan and through interviews, the opinions of 16 counseling teachers working in the city of Burdur were elicited. The collected data were analyzed with content analysis. The inter-rater reliability was calculated to be .88. In light of the findings, the themes of the current study were determined as the difference of this program from the former programs, challenges encountered while preparing the new counseling services plan, support and training received for the new plan, advantages and disadvantages of the new plan and how to develop the new plan. When the opinions of the school psychological counselors were examined, it was found that they had the greatest difficulty in coding in the new counseling services plan, they did not have any training about the development of the new plan and it is pleasing for them that the new plan is systematic and sets objectives