Research Tendency of Postgraduate Theses Completed in The Field of Career Counseling and Vocational Guidance in Turkey

The purpose of this study is to determine the research tendencies of postgraduate theses on career counseling and vocational guidance completed in Turkey between the years of 2000- 2017. In accordance with this purpose, 73 (15 doctoral, 58 master's degree) postgraduate theses open to access in the National Thesis Center were included in the analysis. The theses which examined in this research were evaluated in 6 different themes such as thesis year, study group, study group size, thesis type, research method and subject areas in "Thesis Coding Form". In this research conducted with qualitative research method, the theses were reached by document analysis method and these theses were examined by using content analysis. According to the results of the research, it was seen that high school students were more preferred as study group. Quantitative research methods are more widely used. It has been observed that topics which related to social cognitive career theory are the most preferred subjects