Challenges:
Unfortunately school psychologists are often unqualified and without sufficient theoretical and methodological knowledge in solving psychological issues, which they encounter in working with students, their parents and teachers. This situation can be explained by various reasons, both socio-economic and scientific.
Ideally there should be a conceptual model of psychological assistance, which should be unified and become the basis for all psychological services. In this case, specialists in the field of psychology will be able to cooperate to exchange experiences. In this context, it becomes relevant to improve curricula for training psychologists. Psychologists share the opinion that traditional trainings in academic programs are not necessary and even not applicable in psychological practice.
Another challenge in Moldova is the organization of the psychological profession. There are no clear structures or frameworks on a Psychologists profession. Also the work between the Mental Health Ministry, the Ministry of Education and Psychologists is poorly organized.
The biggest issue in Moldova is that almost a quarter of the citizens do not have knowledge about psychological services.
In conclusion, it must be emphasized that in accordance with the needs of the society it is important to activate the process of information on psychology and provide the necessary resources to promote the development of psychological care (cf. Kucher/ Furdui n.y.).
Trends:
There is no Trend when it comes to counselling in the Republic of Moldova. The biggest and only “trend” is to build more counselling services and organize the social structures.