Özet:

The purpose of this study is to study the lost lives of psychological consultants and the variables related to the sadness process. The process of sadness that arises after the loss of life is a natural and universal reaction, but in any period individuals can experience various difficulties; with the loss the quality of life of individuals can fall; and they may need professional support due to physical, cognitive and behavioral difficulties. Psychological consultants need to be able to effectively deal with their negative life experiences in order to be able to conduct an effective psychological consultation process and learn to manage their own loss and sadness processes in particular. In this study, the guidance and psychological consultancy program aims to study the variables related to the loss and sadness process of students. The research is designed in the factual scientific pattern in the quality research model. The participants of the study were created using easy-to-accessibility techniques from the appropriate sampling methods. The research was carried out with 81 volunteer psychological consultants who any loss of 115 candidates for psychological consultants on the 3rd and 4th classes of the PDR Bachelor's programmes of Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University and İzmir 9th September University. Qualitative data in the research was obtained through a semi-configured conversation technique. As a result, in this study, the majority of psychiatric counselors suffer more death-related losses, including family elderly; a small number of psychiatric counselors receive any professional support in the processes of sadness; and they do not properly structure their sadness when they study their dealing strategies and feelings and thoughts related to sadness. When the results are evaluated in terms of psychological consulting skills, it appears that psychological consultant candidates need to be able to effectively cope with the losses they experience and learn how to structure the process of sadness. Based on the findings obtained, focusing on loss and sorrow in the psychological consultant training is considered an important need to help psychological consultant candidates manage their own loss and sorrow processes and to do studies aimed at acquiring their sorrow counseling skills.