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With the Covid-19 pandemic, which emerged in December 2019 and affected the whole world in March 2020, universities decided to continue with distance education. The aim of this study is to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the distance education process for applied courses such as Individual Psychological Counseling and Field Study in the department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance (PCG), to examine them in depth and to determine the solutions that the students bring to the problems and/or want to be brought. For this purpose, with the help of semi-structured interview forms, focus group interviews were conducted with student groups of 10-15, face-to-face and online. Content analysis was applied in data analysis; Miles&Huberman coefficient for the inter-expert agreement was calculated as 0.90. According to the results of the research, most of the PCG students (77%) stated that the distance education process affects their education life negatively; the most important advantage is that they have time to improve themselves (90%). They stated that the most important disadvantage is that they could not experience the school atmosphere in the practice classes (40%) and that they could not feel competent in the field (36%). The solutions of PCG students for applied courses are providing internship opportunities in the province (22%), prolonging the duration of the courses (34%) and ensuring active participation in the courses (44%).

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