Effective Psychological Counseling at School Mental Health Services

Abstract

The professionals who try to basically provide mental health services at school are School Psychological Counselors. Most of the psychiatric disorders give their first signs as problem behaviours during scholl years. In Turkey, problem behaviours are generally being handled with disciplinary procedures at school. But this approach leads to underestimation of etiology and prevens multidisciplinary treatment modalities thus symptoms which can be treated easily can turn to complicated school problems. Schools are important not only for educational and/or academic activities, but also they may provide countless opportunities to promote and support children’s mental health development. For this reason, schoolbased mental health services have started to be established in many countries. In this study, Mental Health Services at school, the roles of Psycological Counselors have been dealt with.