Starting from the importance and purpose of school counselling, the article highlights the content-methodical specifics and assumptions of effective counselling work with students, and gives a brief overview of the practice of school counselling in Serbia. On that basis, this study aimed at examining school counsellors’ experiences in counselling elementary/primary school children (e.g., reasons for counselling, ways of implementation and difficulties). A sample of 81 school counsellors participated in a semistructured interview. The results show that undesirable behaviour and learning difficulties are the most common reasons for counselling, initiative is mainly coming from teachers or counsellors, and individual work and corrective counselling are more common. The difficulties respondents mentioned mainly related to the students’ personalities. The experiences of practitioners imply that the counselling practice insufficiently appreciates the importance of an integrative-systematic approach in student counselling. In this regard, the conclusion provides some recommendations that could contribute to improving the practice of counselling in schools in Serbia.

本文从学校辅导的重要性和目的出发，重点介绍了与学生进行有效辅导工作的内容-方法细节和假设，并简要概述了塞尔维亚的学校辅导实践。在此基础上，本研究旨在考察学校辅导员辅导小/小学生的经验（如辅导原因、实施方式和困难）。81 名学校辅导员的样本参加了半结构化面试。结果表明，不良行为和学习困难是最常见的辅导原因，主动性主要来自教师或辅导员，个人工作和纠正性辅导更为常见。受访者提到的困难主要与学生的性格有关。从业者的经验表明，咨询实践没有充分认识到综合系统方法在学生咨询中的重要性。在这方面，结论提供了一些建议，有助于改进塞尔维亚学校的咨询实践。