Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD Student in Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

2 Assistant Professor of Counseling, University of Tehran

3 Assistant Professor Department of Counseling Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences Allameh Tabataba'i University

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to qualitatively investigate the occupational identity based on the existential components of new family counselors. In order to identify the effective factors in the job identity of novice family counselors based on existential components, the grounded theory method was used. Data collection was done using in-depth interviews conducted by the researcher. In this study, in order to know the effective factors in the existential components of novice family counselors, all novice family counselors in Tehran in 1400-1401 were considered as the research population. The results of the research were determined in the form of 58 open codes, 9 central codes, and 2 selective codes, which indicated that touching existential concerns such as death, meaning, loneliness, authenticity, freedom, and responsibility, along with the dimensions of occupational identity, play an effective role in It provides the formation of the identity of the counselors And it is very important.

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