A Comparison of School Counselor Training Programs between Turkey and the United States of America

This paper compares two school counselor education programs in two different institutions from two different countries: Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey and The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. Each program represents a different stage of counselor education profe...

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Main Authors Culbreth, John R, Korkut, Fidan
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.01.2006
Subjects
Academic Standards
Accreditation (Institutions)
Comparative Analysis
Counseling
Counselor Training
Cross Cultural Studies
Cultural Differences
Foreign Countries
Graduate Study
North Carolina
Professional Development
Program Development
School Counselors
Turkey
United States
North Carolina
Turkey
United States
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Summary:This paper compares two school counselor education programs in two different institutions from two different countries: Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey and The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA. Each program represents a different stage of counselor education professional development. The UNC-Charlotte program is representative of main stream counselor preparation in the United States, an industrialized western nation. The program at Hacettepe University represents efforts by a country that is at a crossroad, both culturally and geographically between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as a crossroad in the counselor education developmental process. This comparative inquiry reviews program requirements and standards, national accreditation practices, and respective counseling professional issues. Implications of the highlighted differences, along with considerations for future research, are discussed.