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Turkish School Counsellors and Counselling Students' Knowledge of Adolescent Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Diğdem Müge Siyez  and
Aslı Uz Baş
Diğdem Müge Siyez*
Affiliation:
Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Education at Buca, Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Turkey. didem.siyez@deu.edu.tr
Aslı Uz Baş
Affiliation:
Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Education at Buca, Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Turkey.
*
*Address for correspondence: Dr Diğdem Müge Siyez, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Education at Buca, Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Buca – İzmir, +9035150, Turkey.
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Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate the knowledge of Turkish high school counsellors and counselling students about adolescence suicide. The sample consisted of 71 school counsellors and 82 third and fourth year psychology counselling students who completed the Adolescent Suicide Behavior Questionnaire. The results showed that although counselling students have more knowledge than school counsellors, both groups are not well informed about adolescent suicide, with many school counsellors and counselling students unable to determine the risk, precipating and demographic factors and differential warning signs of adolescent suicide in Turkey.

Keywords

adolescent suicidecounselling studentscounsellorknowledge
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Articles
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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , July 2009 , pp. 25 - 40
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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