Bacıoğlu S.D.Kocabıyık O.O.2024-06-122024-06-1220192332-3205https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2019.070119https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14551/16432The aim of this study is to explore prospective school counselors’ views on school violence and aggression by means of a news story reporting a case of school violence. The sample was comprised of 40 students (31 women and 9 men) studying in the Program in Guidance and Counseling in a Turkish state university, and enrolled in the elective course titled “Prevention of Violence and Aggression in Children and Adolescents” in 2016-2017 academic year. The course is available in the curriculum of the Program in Guidance and Counseling. Within the scope of the course, students have studied a newspaper article brought to the classroom by instructor. Then, based on this news story, prospective counselors were asked “to evaluate the school violence incident as a counselor working in that school” in the first place, and “to mention which intervention and prevention actions they could take as a counselor working in that school” in the second place. Students wrote their opinions on the paper. For descriptive analysis of data, interpretative phenomenological analysis – a qualitative research design – was used. Research findings were then discussed with regard to causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and aggression in children and adolescents with the related literature. © 2019 by authors, all rights reserved.en10.13189/ujer.2019.070119info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAggression; Children And Adolescence; Counseling; ViolenceArticle711461562-s2.0-85061654220N/A