THE ABILITY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELORS TO INTERVENE IN TRAUMA

Abstract

Counselors should have psychological counseling skills as well as the ability to work with trauma when it comes to helping individuals who have been exposed to trauma. The aim of this study is to measure the trauma intervention skills of psychological counselors. 265 psychological counselors (127 women, 138 men) from across Turkey voluntarily participated in the study. It has been investigated whether psychological counselors' trauma intervention skills differ according to demographic variables. The research was carried out according to the general screening method. The personal information form prepared by the researcher and the “Psychological Counselors' Trauma Intervention Skills Scale” (PDTMBO) developed by Taytaş (2021) were used to collect the data. The data of the psychological counselors who will participate in the questionnaire as respondents were transferred to the SPSS 24 program and analyzed. According to the results of the research, the average score of psychological counselors on the scale of trauma intervention skills is 8.78 (Ss = 6.33). As a result of the analyses, it was found that the trauma intervention skills of psychological counselors did not differ statistically significantly according to gender and working time in the profession