This study was proceeded with 537 students who had counseling sessions in university students counseling center as the groundwork of applying appropriate counseling strategies according to the client`s personality type, on the basis of the analyses of...
This study was proceeded with 537 students who had counseling sessions in university students counseling center as the groundwork of applying appropriate counseling strategies according to the client`s personality type, on the basis of the analyses of relations between the types of problems students complained about and their personality types. For this purpose, analyses were proceeded to figure out the relations between the reffered problem types and personality types of student clients in university. In summary, the problem types clients complained about appeared as problems in schoolwork and career, problems in personality, and emotional problems in order. Compared with the whole personality type distributions, Interversion and iNtuition types occupied higher rates than other types, concretely, ISTJ, ISTP, INFP, INTJ, and INTP types showed higher frequencies in common than others. So, it is necessary to discuss the reason why the problem complaining rates showed higher levels in these types and the strategies of the counselors to cope with these types of clients appropriately. And further study is needed to research the applicability of strategies of counselors according to the personality type of client`s in counseling setting.