English abstract
This study aims to identify male and female students' attitudes towards students counseling, their knowledge about its services, difficulties in utilization of these services, and alternative sources where students can use seeking the counseling services. This descriptive study was applied to a sample 11 male and female students enrolled in different colleges at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman).
To measure students attitudes towards student counseling, questionnaire was administered and for statically purposes percentages means, standard deviation, , T-Test, One-Way ANOVA, and Post Hoc Test have been used The study following difficulties facing students in utilizing the offered showed positive attitudes towards and knowledge of counseling services, and students counselor, The study counseling services (1) wrong students beliefs about counseling, and negative view about socially and psychologically problematic students. (T) Lack of meeting spacing where counselor and counselee can secure confidentiality and privacy. (T) The heavy demand for counseling service lead to long waiting
time to get such a service. . (6) Inadequate students confident lead them not to freely disclose their cases. (0) Inadequate counselors pre- and in-service training reflects to
bad counseling ways Moreover, results revealed significant statistical differences between students attitudes in the domains of knowledge and counselor, in favor of female students and another significant differences with respect to counseling beneficiaries and non beneficiaries, in favor of beneficiaries.In contrast, results do not show sing differences in counseling Services with respect to student college , their residence ( on or of. campus) and their cumulative grades. Finally, the results showed the alternative sources that students use when they experience problems, where they can be ordered as the following:As a consequent, results stated that students address the following sources seeking counseling , family and relatives, friends and colleagues, academic supervisors and department of religious counseling and guidance.
