Abstract

This is to define the role of professional counselor in Korea. By the archival description of professional counselor, the counselor's role will be more clear and concrete. The five job area that professional counselor in Korea covers are: (1) counseling practice and psychotherapy, (2) community education and mental health prevention program, (3) psychological measurement, (4) education and counseling companies (5) counselor education and supervision. In the basics of these job description, the counselor's job is analyzed. The participants in this study are counselors working in youth counseling center, university counseling center, private counseling center, various religious counseling setting, elementary․high school counselors, counseling related workers in industry. The results are : the status of licensed counselors of Korean Psychological Association mostly work as full-time counselor/researcher: mostly university graduate(96.5%) or MA degrees(81.6%), the average income is $400-800, it is very low income comparing to average income in other job. The counselor's main job is counseling and psychotherapy, and they think the job is very important and vision in the job is positive. The most burnout factors doing counselor's job are lacking job importance of society and monetary problem. Continuous educating area they need mostly is practice of individual necessity of accrediting the license of Division of Counseling and Psychotherapy of Korean Psychological Association by government.