Abstract:

The objective of this research is determined as to examine preservice teacher students’ perception concerning psychological counsellor. In this study, qualitative methods were applied to the analysis under the metaphor Besides that in analyzing the collected data one of the techniques of qualitative analysis, the content analysis is used. The participant group of this study consists of 269 preservice teacher students studying at Marmara University, Atatürk Faculty of Education; art teaching, education of religion and ethics, turkish language and elementary mathematics departments in 2012-2013 academic year. As data collection tool, in order to determine participants’ mental images (metaphors) concerning psychological counselor concept, the participants are required to fill this phrase: “The psychological counselors are like …; because … . According to the findings of the study, the preservice teachers generated total 121 valid metaphors concerning student concept. These metaphors are grouped under 7 different conceptual categories in terms of their common traits. These conceptual categories are as below: The Psychological Counselor as guide, The Psychological Counselor as Nonfunctional, The Psychological Counselor Showing Empathic Manner (Sympathising), The Psychological Counselor as Creating Stressless Atmosphere, The Psychological Counselor as Supportive and Formative, The Psychological Counselor as Confidant and The Psychological Counselor as Informative. It shows that according to how preservice teachers reveal, the most metaphors in these categories are in guide category. Respectively the psychological counselor as supportive and formative, nonfunctional, creating stressless atmosphere, confidant, showing empathic manner and informative follow this category.

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