Abstract:

This article provides information about the bibliometric analyzes on First International Congress on Religious-Spiritual Counselling & Care, held in İstanbul in 2016. The aim of this article, using various qualitative parameters, is to contribute to the literature of this field by presenting the general characteristics of the mentioned congress in every aspect. In the article, doing the frequency and percentage distribution analyses of the presented papers at the congress and on the data on the participants, it has been ultimately determined that (a) 121 scientific activities in total were carried out during the congress; (b) 118 papers in total were presented; (c) 105 of them were oral presentations while the other 13 ones were poster presentations; (d) the vast majority (74%) were prepared in theoretical approach; (e) the most used (73%) data collection method were document review method; (f) the majority of the participants (72%) in the congress with a total of 215 were domestic ones.

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