Alumni Information Questionnaire for IAU PCG Graduates

In 2020, an Alumni Information Questionnaire was applied to 95 IAU PCG graduates in Google Form. Some of the findings are summarized below.

Table 1.1 Frequency and percentage of graduates who answered the Alumni Information Questionnaire by years

63 (65.53%) of the graduates who answered the questionnaire stated that they are still working, while 32 (33.33%) indicated that they are not working. The question directed as "Is your job related to psychological counseling and guidance?" was answered by 53 (55.21%) of the graduates as Yes, 5 (5.21%) of them as Partially and 37 (38.54%) of them as No.

"If you took a job in counseling and guidance after graduation, how long did it take after graduation? Please specify in years." The mean of the question was found to be 1.10 years (Ss = 1.32; n = 66; smallest = .00, largest = 3.00). Five graduates answered "I did not enter" or "I did not study". Responses to this item showed that graduates had trouble finding a job for a significant period of time. Only 20 graduates (20.83%) answered this question as "0".

To the question, "If you are working, can you specify the type of institution you work for?", the answers have been varied as 22 graduates; (22.92%) "Public", 56 graduates (58.33%) "Private" and 17 graduates (17.71%) "I work in my own private business."

"If you are not currently employed, can you indicate how long you have not worked? Please indicate in years." The mean of the question was found to be .47 years (ie, up to 6 months) (Ss = .71; n = 86; smallest = 0.00, largest = 3.00). In this case, the average unemployment period of graduates can be up to six months.

"Do you want to pursue graduate education?" 68 of them (70.83%) answered the question as "Yes" and 27 (28.13%) as "No". Also, "If your answer is yes, please write the name of the program." In response to the question, they mostly stated that they wanted to do a master's degree in psychology departments.

They wrote the following names as program names: Mostly (n = 22) clinical psychology, followed by PCG (n = 12), PCG doctorate (n = 1), Psychology (n = 6), Forensic psychology (n = 5), Business , Organizational and industrial psychology (n = 5), Developmental / education / child psychology (n = 3), Family counseling (n = 3), Sports psychology (n = 2), Educational sciences / assessment and evaluation (n = 2).  The other program names indicated by one person each are as follows: Sex therapy, Disaster management, Speech and language therapy, Digital marketing and solution-focused therapy.

While 53 graduates (55.21%) answered "Yes" to the question, "Have you received professional training after your graduation?", 43 graduates (44.79%) answered "No". Those who stated that they received training mostly stated that they received training in psychological tests (n = 19; for example, MMPI, WISC-R, tests administered to children and adolescents, therapeutic cards, objective and projective tests, D2 attention test) and cognitive behavioral therapy (n = 14).  In addition, our graduates indicated that they received training on other therapy approaches (n = 12; for example, holistic, dialectical, game, emotion-focused, art, psychodynamic, fairy tale, schema, image, EMDR etc.), family counseling / family counseling education (n=8), sexual therapy education(n=6), short-term solution-focused therapy training (n=6), psychodrama training (n=2), special education training (such as specific learning disability, dyslexia) (n=2) and other trainings (child picture analysis, student coaching / career counseling, hypnosis, working with sports psychologists in national teams) (n=1).