Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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Cultural expectations implicate levels of satisfaction with working and living
conditions and result in a satisfactory life of an individual person. From this point of
view a BDBG counsellor has to help the client to understand the consequences of a
possible decision to migrate. Here the counsellor meets the junction of the client’s
culture and living conditions. Guidance counsellors have a key position in supporting
immigrants’ integration into society, and they should therefore joyfully engage
themselves with building bridges between different cultures. (Launikari, 2005)
3.1 Learning Objectives
• The BDBG counsellor knows about relevant legislation related to migration. (TAX
1 – foundation competences)
• The BDBG counsellor knows the definition of culture (in sense of wide range of
social variables or differences among their client) and knows definition of
multicultural counselling. (TAX 1 – foundation competences)
• The BDBG counsellor knows historical outcomes and conditions of multicultural
society in Europe. (TAX 1, 2 – foundation competences)
• The BDBG counsellor has awareness of own assumptions, values and biases.
(TAX 1, 3 – foundation competences, client-interaction competences)
• The BDBG counsellor understands the world view of the culturally different clients.
(TAX 2 – client-interaction competences)
• The BDBG counsellor differs amongst attitudes towards other cultures and is
building tolerant attitude and empathy to different client cultures. (TAX 3 –
foundation competences, client-interaction competences)
• The BDBG counsellor is able to prepare client to handle favouritism, stereotyping,
prejudice attitudes, harassment and discrimination (TAX 4 – client-interaction
competences)
• The BDBG counsellor knows developing appropriate intervention strategies and
techniques and can apply them within the counselling services provided. (TAX 3 –
foundation competences)
• The BDBG counsellor is able to diagnose areas of deficit in cultural competencies
and resolve the related problems (TAX 3 – foundation competences, clientinteraction
competences)
• The BDBG counsellor knows theory of integration to strange cultural society is
able to demonstrate consequences of clients’ possible decisions and to assist and
guide clients on his/her integration. (TAX 4 – foundation competence, clientinteraction
competences)
• The BDBG counsellor knows about the legislation and norms regulating free
movement of workers in the EU and specific national conditions. Counsellor is able
to inform clients about existing regulations but is not counselling without regular
law education. (TAX 3 – supporting competences, client-interaction competences)
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