In Ontario, guidance counselling programs are aimed to serve the students as a whole, through providing support on academic, career-related, and personal issues. This mixed-method research study investigated students' opinions of guidance counselling services offered in three Ontario secondary schools. Through the use of a survey, 209 senior secondary school students responded to questions that assessed their reasons for accessing guidance counselling services, their level of satisfaction with the services they had received, and reasons why they might avoid seeking help from the guidance counselling staff. Subsequent interviews were conducted with six students, three males and three females, to gain further detailed knowledge about students' perspectives of the guidance counselling services they had received.; Quantitative and qualitative methods largely yielded similar, complementary results. In general, academic counselling was accessed the most and satisfied students more than career or personal counselling. Students indicated that the primary reasons for not using guidance counselling services were their lack of knowledge about the counsellors and the perception that services were tailored expressly for academic counselling. Gender differences emerged in some of the findings. These results were then used to discuss implications for further research and guidance counselling practice.
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