The problems encountered in the process of developing primary school curriculum programmes of counseling and guidance

The purpose of this study is to determine the problems encountered in developingcurriculum programmes of counseling and guidance of primary schools according to theviews of school counselors and managers working in primary schools.Survey method is used in this study. The population of the study consists of 78primary schools which have school counselors and located in Eskişehir city centre. Thedata have been collected from 112 subjects-65 school counselors and 47 school managers- who have worked in these schools.The data in this study have been collected with a data collection instrument called?The problems encountered in the process of developing primary school curriculumprogrammes of counseling and guidance?. This instrument has been developed by theresearcher depending on the relevant literature.Frequency and percentile norms (%) have been used in the data analysis of theproblems encountered in the process of developing primary school curriculum programmeof counseling and guidance. SPSS for windows programme has been used in this process ofdata analysis.The results of the study show that most of the participants of the study perceive allthe items under ? research and development activities?, ?cooperation?, ? humanresources? as problems in the process of developing primary school curriculumprogrammes of counseling and guidance. Except one of them, the items under ?mentalityoriented problems? have also been perceived as problems in this process