Opinions of psychological advisors on PDR services carried out through distance education during the COVID-19 epidemic

This research was conducted in order to obtain the opinions of psychological counselors working in Gaziantep during the COVID-19 Epidemic Period about their experiences. With a semi-structured interview form prepared for data collectioni it was applied face-to-face in accordance with the course of the pandemic process. The data obtained from the data collection tools used in the research were coded and the quantitative data were evaluated using SPSS and the qualitative data were evaluated using the qualitative analysis program (MAXQUADA2020). As a result of the analysis, it has been determined that psychological counselors have problems such as connection problems, low student participation, difficulty of the Web tool, excess number of siblings, late arrival of tablets, lack of privacy in the distance education process. İn addition, it was observed that psychological counselors were worried about revealing their images in online interviews. İt was determined that the psychological counselors who participated in the online trainings were productive. İt has been concluded that psycholohical counselors give more weight to group counseling and educational guidance. İt has been found and discussed that the psychlogical counselors are of the opinion that distance education should not continue after the epidemic is over and that they do not find their professional and personal satisfactions satisfactory throughout the process.