CROSS BORDER SEMINAR Innovative Tools and Methods in Career Guidance and Counselling Conclusions May 2011 Budapest Borbély-Pecze Tibor Bors, Ph.D.

Where we got started? - Counselling is a standalone profession Szilágyi: There is a significant history of science background to the development of counselling as a profession; the development of philosophy, psychology, economics, sociology and medicine facilitated the scientific establishment of a practical activity. The development of these areas shows different features but, concerning counselling, we can emphasize the significance of interdisciplinary which is both a difficulty and an opportunity in this process.

Self-knowledge related to career Knowledge about labour market and education Knowledge of occupations Areas to be integrated

The European Union also has a definition (2004) In the context of lifelong learning, guidance refers to a range of activities 1 that enables citizens of any age and at any point in their lives to identify their capacities, competences and interests, to make educational, training and occupational decisions and to manage their individual life paths in learning, work and other settings in which these capacities and competences are learned and/or used. Draft Resolution of the Council and of the representatives of the Member States meeting within the Council on Strengthening Policies, Systems and Practices in the field of Guidance throughout life in Europe

and a footnote… Examples of such activities include information and advice giving, counselling, competence assessment, mentoring, advocacy, teaching decision-making and career management skills. In order to avoid ambiguity, since a variety of terms are used in Member States to describe services engaged in these activities, including educational, vocational or career guidance, guidance and counselling, occupational guidance/counselling services, etc., the term 'guidance' is used throughout this text to identify any or all of these forms of provision and Member States should interpret the term as referring to the appropriate provision in their own countries.

Professionalising career guidance - a competency framework for professionals (2009) CEDEFOP (2009)

It has different parts Career advise Career guidance and career counselling -All parts of a Lifelong Guidance (LLG) System -Where you have reliable data on EDU. and LM. and trained professionals

…so these type of meetings are highly relevant at least in two ways; Helping the professionals on self-reflexions (network-building is one way to do it; e.g. intervisio, learning the same professional language…) Serving for „upskilling” (e.g. LLL – learning new methods)

Outcomes from the workshops

A1 - “Bib-wiki: ONE instrument of knowledge management for all guidance practitioners in Austria”- Erika Kanelutti-Chilas, Austria Is a password protected on-line knowledge management tool Sponsored by Federal Ministry of Education, Adult Education Dept. (ESF) Currently 250 professionals and 100 organisations use it in a cross-sectoral base Also available for German speaking countries

B1-“Personal type preferences and their usefulness for career decision”- Elena Lisá, Slovak Republic Personal characteristics and occupations Extrovert / Introvert Sensing / Intuition Thinking / Feeling Judgment / Perception 8 types of preferences

C1- "Online course: Multiculturalism in vocational guidance – Innovative tool for career counsellors’ professional development"- Zuzanna Rejmer, Poland For and against on-line courses KNOWLEDGE – SKILLS – ATTITUDES The most important factors that make the online course successful: –curiosity –engagement –various tasks –interactions with other participants –the instructor and –use of experience –more interaction

A2- “Life space mapping as an innovative ICT method in career guidance and biographical counselling”- Aneta Slowik, Poland Sue (1996) Multicultural Counselling and Therapy (MCT) Peavy, Vance – sociodinamic counsellingsociodinamic counselling Drowing & cycles: Past-present-future For migrants, low-skilled So it is visualisation in the G. process

B2- “One’s creativity in the process of decision making and problem solving” - Peter Gabor, Slovenia Amundson’s problem solving model –Competency model –Active engagement of the counselee Soft techniques for this: –Draw down your life mountain –Write your life book –Draw the problem –Draw yourself –Verbal metaphors

C2- “Group work sessions supporting labour market integration” – Miklós Kenderfi, Hungary Practice oriented (eclectic) approach Group counselling as a main tool for ‘underclass’ (dropped-out, homeless, unemployed mothers, Roma etc.) –Information gap –Group conversation cannot work –Instead of this they need simply tasks (e.g. social atom, worksheet…)

A3- “Supplementary methods in counselling: Profiling, Kerin, Orient”- András Vladiszavlyev, Hungary Profiling: Profiling provides assistance for identifying people who may be at risk of long-term unemployment as a tool of the European PES Using hard data (as gender, region, vocation, ISCO, age ect.) for guidance

B3- “The power of colours: Psychodiagnostic in career counselling Adéla Vavriková & Jana Vohral í kov á Czech Republic psychodiagnostics in career counselling –With projective methods Based on Lüscher´s theory (Colour-Verbal Association Test) –130 words personality Firm Job position 3 colour / word

C3- “BeKo: A new concept for guidance- counsellors in the Public Employment Service (PES)” - Verena Stolte, Germany Practice & process-oriented aid that is open to development for counselling and placement specialist staff within the BA 2 types of counselling in BA –Orientation and Decision-making Counselling (OEB) –Integration Accompanying Counselling (IBB) 3 specialisations: U25, adults, disabled –For social beneficiaries local gov. & BA jointly operate services Different intervention levels and a protocol & in-service training (partly on-line) for the staff (basics, counselling formats, tools, supervision) Widening access vs. quality of CG services ?

What I’ll take home with me CG has strong professional background in psychology and pedagogy as well, it is important for the professional to understand his/her background Neither psychological nor pedagogical tools can be used without the strong knowledge on the occupation and LM (economics) & tool itself (you have to try it by yourself!) It is important to understand the different professional possibilities of the different professions (e.g. teachers, social workers, career counsellors, psychologists, advisors) It is not a solution if we call everybody Guidance Counsellor – it might harm the end-user and the professional as well.

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