Özet:

University students are experiencing biopsycho-social, spiritual and economic issues of a slight to severe level. Most of these students are unable to deal with these issues functionally enough, through professional mental health services. Thus, the level of general well-being of students can decrease or these issues can become more complex psychopathologies. Many researchers have found that psychological flexibility has a meaningful relationship with the psychopathological and general well-being states in which a person lives. In light of this information, in this study we studied the impact of individual psychological consultancy services on the level of psychological flexibility of university students. In the current study, we used a semi-experimental design with the last test control group. The experimental group included 133 consultants and 31 university students in the control group. At the same time, 110 candidate psychological consultants under professional supervision provided five sessions of individual psychological consultation service to each consultant in the experimental group. We used the Acceptance and Action Form-II as a data collection tool to determine the levels of psychological flexibility of participants. We used the quarry analysis (ANCOVA) in the analysis of data. According to the findings obtained, the individual psychological consultancy service has shown that it has increased the level of psychological flexibility to a significant level in the positive direction, with another expression that consultants have reduced their psychological participation points to a significant level. The analysis results showed that the inclusion in the test and control group, when pre-test checked, revealed the variability of psychological participation in the last-test score of approximately 12% (η2= .120). According to Cohen (1988, 2013) this value indicates an average impact size. As we do not find a research in which the impact of individual psychological consultancy services on psychological flexibility is addressed by semi-experienced studies as researchers, we think the research will contribute to the theoretical research and related psychological consultancy services in the field of mental health. Considering the results of the study, we made recommendations for mental health experts, researchers and managers. Future researchers can also take advantage of the online Seslifoto (OSF) method, an innovative quality research technique, and organize more comprehensive comprehensive experimental studies with mixed methods to deal with the effects of the services provided more functionally and integrally.

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