Integration between Artificial Intelligence and the Educational Counselor in Psychological Counseling

Abstract

Psychological counseling represents one of the applied fields of modern psychology. It aims to achieve human happiness and development by helping individuals reach better choices, as it is a process of learning, personality growth, and acquiring self-knowledge that can be translated into a better understanding of one’s role in life. Psychological counseling is also considered a learning process carried out within a flexible social environment. Its objective is to bring about positive change in human behavior, since positive change increases an individual’s productivity and enables adaptation to the environment in which he or she lives (Al-Khalidi, 2012, p. 25).

The importance of employing artificial intelligence in psychological counseling is also increasing, particularly in light of the complex conditions experienced by human societies. Under such circumstances, the need for large-scale and rapid-response psychological support becomes extremely important (Ishtayeh, 2025, p. 2). Therefore, the present research aims to construct an artificial-intelligence-based psychological counseling scale in order to achieve the following:

Identifying the extent of integration between artificial intelligence and the psychological counselor in counseling work.

Revealing the extent to which educational counselors approve of artificial intelligence technology.

The research is limited to a sample of educational counselors in the center of Basrah Governorate. The scale is applied to the sample members, who number 150 male and female counselors, followed by statistical processing using the SPSS statistical program and the extraction of results, after which recommendations and suggestions are presented.