한국교육상담학회의 활동 방향 탐색: 한국교육상담학회의 활동과 학교상담 관련 학술논문의 주제를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to explore the direction of the Korean Education and Counseling Association(KECA)'s activities as an academic organization for counseling in education. For this purpose, an analysis was conducted on the academic activities of the KECA from 2020 onwards, as well as an analysis of the topics of papers published in major academic journals on educational counseling from 2013 to May 2023. The research results revealed the following. Firstly, the KECA has been publishing academic journals and organizing academic conferences since 2020. They have also been developing the curriculum for subjects such as 'Guidance and Counseling' and 'Understanding School Violence.' Through these activities, the association has established itself as a professional group of experts which study counseling from an educational perspective, taking into consideration the school system. As a result of analyzing papers published in related journals over the past decades, the subjects and targets of school counseling, school counseling methods and effects, school counseling research trends, school counseling systems and legalization studies have been underway. It can be seen that school counseling in Korea has a strong tendency to apply the knowledge and skills of counseling to schools rather than studying counseling based on schools. In order to implement sufficiently working school counseling in the school system, it was found that research on the field of counseling operating in the school system needs to be conducted more actively.