Cultural Factors in Guidance and Counseling, in Turkey: The Experience of a Fulbright Family

Abstract

The cross‐cultural observations of a Fulbright professor and his family are described. Issues such as age, authority, sex roles, proxemics, and communication are discussed.

The mentoring relationship: A comparison of counselling students in the United States of America and Turkey

“…This authoritarian relationship seems to be supported by the Turkish educational system. As noted by McWhirter (1983), in Turkey ''education has a very strong vertical thrust as opposed to a horizontal one. Knowledge is believed to reside in the teacher or professor and is transmitted downward in a vertical way'' (p. 505).…”

“…A growing literature has begun to call attention to the likelihood that the translation of counseling psychology to a range of different cultural contexts requires adaptation to those cultures, resulting in changes or modifications in the training programs that provide cultural coherence within disparate contexts (Pederson, 2003). As an example, in his observations regarding Turkey, McWhirter (1983) notes that,…”

Counselling women: Information from diverse ethnic cultures

“…Two exceptions were papers by Shahmirzadi (1983) and McWhirter (1983), both of which emphasized the need, within the counselling context, to respect the status and roles of women in the culture and the family. This further emphasizes the need for papers addressing cultural similarities and differences in counselling women.…”

And Now, Up Go the Walls

“…Forum Coeditors Blustein and Leong are to be commended for assembling a solid set of articles that are illustrative of the current state of international counseling psychology and its global world impact. McWhirter, 1983), my professional colleagues were supportive and happy for me, but many could not understand why a counseling psychologist would want to take his family to Turkey for anything other than a brief tourist trip, and some even questioned that. Progress does seem to have been slow.…”

“…McWhirter, 1983), my professional colleagues were supportive and happy for me, but many could not understand why a counseling psychologist would want to take his family to Turkey for anything other than a brief tourist trip, and some even questioned that. McWhirter, 1983), my professional colleagues were supportive and happy for me, but many could not understand why a counseling psychologist would want to take his family to Turkey for anything other than a brief tourist trip, and some even questioned that.…”