Consultation needs assessment on high school students: The study of reliability and validity of Persian version student's Counseling Needs Questionnaire

This currens study was conducted in order to validation the Counseling Needs Questionnaire of high school students in various fields of psychological, education and Job. 734 students boys and girls in 10th and 11th grades, selected by multi stage clustering random sampling from four educational areas of Shiraz city, and completed the Sculli's Counseling Needs of Students Questionnaire. The findings that of the SCNB included seven factors the social communication; academic planning; severe events; academic counseling; graduation education; sexuality problems, and familiar to consulting services. Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of SCNB was equal to 0.95, and the need for consultation to inform of education in universities are the highest mean score and the need for counseling for issues such as physical abuse, suicide, alcohol and drugs had a the lowest mean score.