Global Research Trends in Educational Counselling: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1976 to 2024
Keywords:
bibliometric analysis; educational counselling trends; health communication in education; culturally responsive counsellingAbstract
With the rise of academic pressures on education all over the world, along with mental health issues and widely differing student needs, there is no doubt that guidance counselling in schools has become a key driver of student success. The present article provides a bibliographical review of 92 articles on Counselling in Education published in Scopus from 1976 to 2024 and maps out the intellectual structure of this field and its research trends. The selection of data began with a PRISMA-driven screening of 3,363 records (automated filtering and eligibility assessment) to the final dataset. OpenRefine (keyword harmonization), BiblioMagika® (frequency and citation metrics), as well as VOSviewer (co-occurrence visualization) were used for the analysis of data. Results indicate a fast-growing number of overall research productivity in the past twenty years, with the U.S.A., India, and the Netherlands being the most productive, with Johns Hopkins University, Tuberculosis Research Center (India), and Maastricht University being the top-ranking institutions. Thematic mapping revealed main clusters were patient counselling, healthcare education, attitudes to health, risk factors for HIV lifecycle, and clinical interventions, as well as emerging topics such as the integrations of counselling in formal education, advancement on ethical and culturally sensitive practices, and strategies for structured communication on health. These findings shed light on the developmental pathway of counselling in education, which also provides some strategic implications for health researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to enhance evidence-based interventions by linking future endeavours with the global public health and educational agenda.
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.24.10.35
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