A STUDY ON TEACHERS' VIEWPOINTS TOWARDS GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES IN TEHRAN'S HIGH SCHOOLS

The purpose of this research was to study the counseling services, given to high schools’
students from teachers’ viewpoints as one of the main stakeholders of the services. Participants were
110 teachers. A researcher-designed survey questionnaire based on three main domains counseling
services including Educational, personal-social and vocational in high schools, and some necessary
demographic and primary information included Teacher’s attitude towards counselor, guidance and
counseling services, was used for data analysis. SPSS was used to code and analysis the collected
data, producing descriptive statistics included frequency, mean, standard deviation and correlation:
and also producing inferential statistic included one sample t-Test. Results showed that teachers
have positive attitude towards the services in general and in two main domains( personal-social and
vocational) but their viewpoints towards the services in educational domain are negative. 85% of
participations emphasized on the necessity of counseling and guidance program in all three main
domains of guidance and counseling services.