Guidance and Psychological Counseling Ibn Haldun University

Overview

Guidance and Psychological Counseling as a profession in the world is one of the highly sought-after career fields in Turkey as well. It is a discipline that seeks solutions to the problems that arise in the family and education system in the selection of profession, along with the rapid social change brought about by industrialization and urbanization.

The Guidance and Psychological Counseling course at Ibn Haldun University aims to provide learning environments for students to explore psychological counseling and support methods in different cultures and to find research opportunities. As a learning and teaching policy there are ways to recognize the existing methods, to discover the innovations, to create alternatives, to think differently and to produce independently. For this reason, it has set out to provide new and original project and practice developments that can bring out the original and autonomous abilities of the students and to work with them so that they can do all these mentioned.

Employment Opportunities 

Guidance and Psychological Counseling programme graduates;

• can work on preventive mental health in public and private sector.

• can work in all educational institutions as the School Psychological Counselor. Supporting them during the development process of the students, reducing the risk factors, and prioritizing the interventions that lead to crisis moments are priority tasks.

• can serve as psychological counselors and administrators in kindergartens

• can work at family and child courts, police headquarters, juvenile branch units, prisons, under observation and follow-up by children under state protection

• can work at the Guidance Research Centers (RAM), which are located in the district's National Education Directorates, develop guidance programmes for schools and apply psychological tests.

• can take part in universities as academicians. They can continue their education life with graduate and doctoral options and they can get specialization.

• Can take part in psychological counseling units that work towards the mental health of the students and staff of the universities.

• can work as psychological counselors at special psychological counseling centers.

• can work in special education and rehabilitation centers.

• can take part in human resource units of public and private institutions, in career counseling centers, in vocational training and public education centers.