Faculty of Education for Pure Sciences / University of Kerbala has organized an inperson scientific symposium which is entitled (Educational Counseling) with participation of a number of researchers, specialists and interested people. Prof. Dr. Haider Al-Yaqoubi from faculty of Education for Human Sciences, and Dr. Hussein Musa Abd from Physics Department, have perensted a lecture.
The symposium aims at identifying concept of educational counseling, its importance in educational institutions, and the most important aspects that it works to organize educationally.
The symposium shows that educational counseling is a process based on a special professional relationship between specialized counselor (teacher) and mentor (student). The mentor (teacher) works through counseling relationship to help and understand the mentor (student) and help him understand himself and choose the best alternatives available based on his awareness of the requirements of social environment and his self-assessment and realistic capabilities and capabilities.
The researchers call for paying attention to such issues because educational counseling process aims at achieving self-realization and preserving one’s psychological health, and the role of the counselor is to help the individual developing his positive self-concept.
