COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023)

Questioning Turkish Psychological Counselor Trainees’ Prejudices towards Some Clients: Reflections of the Social Context

Serdar Körük (Yeditepe University)
Alper Karababa (Mugla Sitki Kocman University)
Ali Ammar Kurt (Mersin University)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Sep 2023

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to reveal the prejudices of psychological counselor trainees towards clients and the sources of these prejudices among a group of Turkish undergraduates in the psychological counseling department. The study group consisted of 39 undergraduates who were continuing their education in the third year. The ages of the students varied between 20 and 23. They were from different parts of Anatolia region in Turkey. The qualitative data obtained from 39 participants underwent content analysis. The themes related to the prejudices were found as crime domain, nationalism domain, LGBT people domain, conservative people domain, and personal domain while the themes related to the sources of prejudices were found as interpersonal domain, personal domain, and media domain. The themes and categories were discussed in relation to the literature on prejudice in psychological counseling and the previous studies that have been conducted.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

counsedu

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education ISSN: 2548-348X , e-ISSN: 2548-3498 is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by Indonesian Counselor Association (IKI). The aim of this journal is to publish high-quality articles dedicated to all aspects of the latest ...