Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA
client’s problem, to the gravity, emergency, priority and personal sensitiveness of the client in
a certain situation. So the counsellor must have contacts with other experts in related fields,
with the local authorities, employers and other community actors in order to better intervene.
In what it concerns the specific theoretical streams we may say that the educational
counselling is more psychologically based and the labour market counselling services are more
economically and socially based and at some point it creates a gasp between the approaches.
Procedures: for the educational counselling services the pre‐university students have one
hour/ week counselling classes held by the counsellors himself or by the tutor teacher of the
class. The students may specifically solicitate counselling services by the school counsellor, or it
may be recommended to him by the teachers, the student being identified as “having
problems”. The counsellor has nor the time or the capacity to offer individual counselling for
all students, that is why the “healing” approach is used frequently.
The guidance and counselling services in the labour market approach is voluntary, depends of
the individual need and intention to receive help in finding a job, to change his job or to
receive training on a new professional path. The person identifies his needs together with the
counsellor in individual sessions, are presented the options and it is helped to make a choice or
for a job available and that he has training for, or to choose a training course available in order
to be able to candidate on a job position.
The Ministry of Labour, Family and Equal Opportunities has an agreement with the Ministry of
Education, Research and Youth, in which they go into school to present their activities, the
new trends on the labour market, the weaknesses and the strengths in choosing a job, raising
the awareness in students in making a decision based on real information.
Slovakia
In Slovakia, career guidance offers mostly three basic programmes ‐ programme of career
education, informational and counselling programme and psychological counselling
programme. The first mentioned is mostly a part of educational counsellor’s job and is
embedded in educational process. The aim of informational and counselling programme is to
complete information on employment (description of jobs, labour law, etc.). This type of
programme is utilized mainly by OLSAF and educational counsellors. It is ideal for the use of
ICT. Psychological counselling programme can be offered only by psychologists (school or
counselling). It is continuous and more complex process– it can consist of diagnostic,
counselling and eventually training services. The first two programmes are more effective in
terms of number of participants involved as they utilize group methods like discussion sessions
and lectures. Involvement of ICT and self‐servicing interactive programmes impose fewer
requirements on staff, too. Because of shortage of personnel these programmes could be very
helpful in all facilities. Nevertheless it has to be said that they are not commonly used and
there are still many pupils and students left without any guidance. Psychological counselling
programmes utilize mainly individual methods and consist usually of entry interview,
completion of career information, psychological examination and independent choice. This
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