Dropping Out of Counseling Process Among College Students: Reasons and Recommendations

Yikilmaz M., Sahin E. E., Ozer O., Altinok A.

STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY-PSIKOLOJI CALISMALARI DERGISI, sa.1, ss.1-20, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Dergi Adı: STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY-PSIKOLOJI CALISMALARI DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-20
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Drop out, counseling process, college counseling center
  • Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The aim of this study is to determine dropping out rates of the counseling, the number of sessions that premature terminators complete and drop out reasons. In this scope, data was gathered from 206 clients who terminated counseling process prematurely while they were attending to Counseling and Guidance Center of Anadolu University. Also, 48 of 206 clients filled in "Drop out Reasons Questionnaire". Findings of research revealed that the most popular reason that was stated by clients for dropping out of counseling process is "I have no enough time for counseling" and the least popular one was "because of missing a session thus I didn't attend the next session". It was observed that dropping out of counseling process is derived from reasons about client, counselor and the reasons related to out of process. Findings were being discussed in company with literature and some suggestions were made to decrease drop out rates.