Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to assess the provision of counseling service in Gondar town
. secondary schools. It is designed to study the application of the services provided by school counselors
and to investigate major problems hinder the service from progress in facilitation the learning teaching
process. The study was conducted using a survey design from eight secondary schools using
· questionnaires for counselor's teachers and students while structured interviews were conducted with
directors and counselors. The total number of respondents sampled was 526 of which 440 students by
using stratified and cluster random sampling,' 70 teachers were selected by using proportional random
sampling , 8 counselors and 8 directors were selected by using comprehensive sampling. Statistical
~echniques such as frequency miil. percentage •• were used to analyze. the data. The outcome of the data
analysis revealed significant demand of the counseling services among users and teachers. The study also
indicates the positive attitude towards the-profession and promising awareness among respondents. On
the whole, the results disclosed that th~r~' is· a significant difference between efficient/creative/ counselors
and inefficient/non-creative/counselors in their activities. This shows that counselors have great influence
on the awareness and attitude of the school community. Moreover the findings show that there are a lot of
activities done by counselors in school settings. Problems emanated from the counselors themselves.
Finally, beginning from the selection of counselors for training, assign in all the schools setting of the
region ' enough orientation to apply the service on scnool settings, personal creativity and human
relation-skills of the counselors were forwarded as· major recommendations in order to improve the
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present condition of counseling services in the Amhara region secondary schools.