Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
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2.4 Unit 3: Assessment of Specific Needs of the Client in BD-BG<br />
Counselling<br />
The counsellor should be able to adequately assess the specific needs of their clients<br />
through demonstration of engagement and professionalism.<br />
Therefore special attention should be paid to the following client related aspects in<br />
multicultural professional counselling:<br />
• attitude towards education and career, quality of secondary and vocational<br />
� education, importance of professional qualification<br />
• client’s motivation to achieve relevant goals as well as issues in regard<br />
� with client’s specific requirements, ambitions, time management etc.<br />
• predetermined cultural limitations or preferences with regard to given professions<br />
and activities<br />
• communication habits of client<br />
• language competency, cultural competency, behavioural competency for<br />
� professional life<br />
• behaviour during the decision making process and capacity for decision<br />
• making in the family (predominant orientation towards home country criteria or<br />
towards current dominant culture)<br />
Westwood and Ishiama (1991) see several clearly distinguished obstacles that<br />
threaten the multicultural counselling success. Some of them are:<br />
1. Language barriers – incorrect interpretation, inaccurate information, unfavourable<br />
environment for conducting tests and in the process of goal determination.<br />
2. Insufficient knowledge for the variety of professions and information for given<br />
possibilities for professional realization.<br />
3. Unfavourable situations with regards to methods for identification for employability<br />
connected with the culture.<br />
4. Insufficient coping with discrimination and intolerance in a social environment.<br />
5. Psychological problems caused by life in a new environment and work experience<br />
with regards to self-assessment, culture shock, changing structure of family.<br />
6. Threat of own identity and conflict arising in regard with client’s self-determination.<br />
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