Education Counselors Research Articles

Developing an effective mental health guidance module for primary schools: A survey study on needs and preferences

There is an increasing recognition of mental health concerns in educational institutions, particularly in primary schools. The objective of this study was to obtain initial understanding of the fundamental components required for the creation of a mental health guidance module that can improve the efficacy of mental health awareness education in elementary schools. A comprehensive survey was administered to GBKSM, Senior Assistants, Education Counsellors, and Head Teachers at the State Education Department in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and Putrajaya to gather the required data. The survey covered participants' comprehension, proficiency, and beliefs on the management of mental health disorders and the approaches used in delivering mental health education. Significant findings indicate a necessity to prioritise emotion regulation at 90 percent, stress management at 85 percent, comprehension of mental health at 80 percent, and resilience development at 75 percent. Furthermore, social skills were identified as important at 70 percent, bullying prevention at 65 percent, and family dynamics at 60 percent. A notable 95 percent of participants favoured digital interactive tools for the dissemination of mental health education. The research underscores the necessity of creating interactive and digital resources to improve student engagement while providing ongoing professional development for educators. These findings establish a framework for developing a comprehensive mental health module that caters to the needs of students and the roles of educators in promoting a supportive environment. Future research should examine the efficacy of these modules across diverse educational contexts, assess their long-term impact on children's mental health, and ascertain whether educators need supplementary support for effective implementation.

Faculty Reflections and Adaptations in a First-Year Block Model

The paper highlights the experiences of faculty members in the transition to a block model in engineering education, where courses are taught sequentially in short blocks, blending in-person and online instruction. The block model pilot at a suburban Toronto campus aimed to improve student outcomes, alleviate student stress from heavy workloads and commuting. Kolb’s cycle of experiential education was used as a framework for understanding faculty experiences. Faculty members adapted their teaching methods for condensed learning sessions, supported by development workshops and ongoing pedagogical counseling. Faculty members identified challenges and successes in redesigning courses, emphasizing the importance of faculty development and student-centered programming. It contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning by documenting the faculty perspective on block model implementation, informing best practices for engineering educators. The findings highlight the potential of the block model to foster active learning communities and suggest areas for future refinement.

Communication Techniques in Psychological and Pedagogical Counseling in the Context of the Cognitive-Behavioral Approach

The article reveals the importance of psychological counseling - competent assistance of a psychologist to one or more clients in finding solutions to problems, taking into account the peculiarities of the psyche and ways of professional or personal improvement. Important in counseling behavioral and cognitive approaches. In the early stages of development, human and cognitive approaches develop separately from each other, but already in the first theories of human knowledge it is possible to explore motives for organizing knowledge: indeed, the use of cognitive processes is necessary to change behavior - this view is already heard in Tolman's concept of "cognitive maps". Note that psychologists also focus on the need for action at a higher level. Today's theories deal with cognitive and behavioral processes, so they often emphasize a unified cognitive-bihevioral approach rather than on two separate parts. The article provides concepts and describes the principles of the cognitive-bihevioral approach; defines the tasks of psychotherapy and counseling according to the humanistic approach; presents categories of irrationality of opinions in the context of the cognitive-bihevioral approach of counseling; offers communication techniques in psychological and pedagogical counseling in the context of the cognitive-bihevioral approach.

Usługi wczesnego wspomagania rozwoju dziecka w prawie oświatowym

Early support for child development is a form of targeted and specialized support for a child who has not yet started fulfilling educational obligations. It is implemented in order to stimulate the child’s psychomotor and social development, from the moment of detecting a disability until the child starts school. It is intended to prevent potential future failures in school education. Early support for child development is a conglomerate of public services whose type, scope and frequency of provision are adapted to the needs of a specific child, and take into account their individual limitations. The right to use these services stems from an opinion issued by the adjudicating panel of a public psychological and pedagogical counseling center confirming the child’s need for early development support. The article discusses the legal aspects of the public task of organizing and providing services in the field of early development support. The aim is to explain the meaning of the concept of early support for child development, discuss the legal provisions regulating them and determine the ratio legis of their introduction into the Polish legal system. It also involves identifying intangible services falling within the scope of early support for child development, determines their beneficiaries and identifying the entities providing them. In the context of acquiring the right to use these services, special attention will be paid to the opinion issued on the need to support early child development, in particular, the procedure for its issuance it and its components. In order to achieve the research goals, the dogmatic-legal method will be used, consisting of the analysis and interpretation of the texts of legal acts. Administrative court jurisprudence regarding the subject of the article will also be taken into account to the required extent.

Mental health and early career adaptation challenges of Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists among the STEAM doctoral cohorts in the post-pandemic academic job market

ABSTRACT This longitudinal study presents a critical phenomenological comparison of mental health and early career adaptation challenges encountered by Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists in the post-pandemic academic job market. They were international doctoral candidates in American higher education pursuing academic careers in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) but failed to secure tenure-track faculty positions. Consequently, all Chinese returned to their home country, while all Koreans remained in the United States. Findings demonstrate that both groups commonly experienced racial trauma, career anxiety, and ambiguous loss, albeit within each group’s diverse circumstances and immigration status, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study suggests implementing trauma-informed care within the chaos theory of careers. Therefore, this study calls upon the global public, intellectual societies, policymakers, and counsellors in comparative and international education to develop appropriate coping strategies and provide these emerging scholars with mental health counselling and career support services.

Strategie wspierania zdolnych podopiecznych pieczy zastępczej

The issue of gifted children growing up in a natural family environment has been addressed quite widely. However, small amount of research regarding gifted children residing in the foster care environment is noticeable. At the same time, the issue of having, developing and supporting abilities is extremely significant, especially with regard to pupils of foster care environments deprived of their primary developmental environment, which is the family. Foster care environments can also effectively support the potential of their pupils. The publication is an attempt to answer the question of what support activities are undertaken in the foster care environment in relation to gifted pupils? The research method is case studies. The research indicates various forms of support for gifted pupils: the organization of additional activities, depending on the interests or abilities of the pupil or the financial support as the one they need for the future process of independence, as well as emotional support and others. At the same time, some differences are visible between the activities of institutional and family care, as the latter definitely more often uses the help of psychological and pedagogical counseling centers or organizations supporting gifted students, even if in the form of funded scholarships.

Research on the Team Construction of Network Education Counselors Based on the Easy Class Platform

In today's era, mobile Internet technology advances by leaps and leaps, promoting the explosive growth of we-media network platform. Cyberspace has not only become an arena for various social trends of thought, but also evolved into a place for the integration of diverse values, thus further highlighting the importance of online ideological and political education. As a clear and orderly network platform, Yiban is committed to providing students with high-quality network education and cultural life, which provides a solid foundation for teachers to carry out network education in easy class, and has become an important carrier of education and teaching activities. This kind of network education method can not only help to achieve the goal of network education, but also promote the deep interaction between college students and network culture, and enhance their sense of identity to network culture.

Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis

The purpose of this systematic review and thematic synthesis was to identify and consolidate research on the support needs of impacted Higher Education (HE) counselors that have experienced a student suicide death. When exposed to a student suicide death, counselors are often extensively involved in a postvention response. This systematic review synthesized four qualitative papers that explored the experiences of staff impacted by student suicide. Thematic synthesis revealed three core themes: The unknown, responding, and the known, and six subthemes: Gaps in knowledge of individual experience, gaps in knowledge of organizational impact, extrospective responding, introspective responding, the needs of impacted counselors, the degree of impact, and the support processes that arise from needs. The results provide a summary of the current supports available to impacted HE counselors and considerations relevant to their postvention needs.

The inner logic and integration path of new quality productivity and vocational education counselor construction

The inner logic and integration path of new quality productivity and vocational education counselor construction

The Construction and Transformation of the Discourse System of Higher Vocational Education Counselors in the Era of Information Education

Abstract With the rapid development of information media, senior counselors face many new opportunities and challenges in ideological and political education discourse. This study divides the counselor discourse modal system into linguistic and visual image modal. Adopting the advanced Transformer architecture and combining the BERT and RoBERTa algorithms, this paper profoundly analyzes the syntactic structure in the discourse. It extracts the emotional features in the text using the bert word vector model. Meanwhile, the dynamic features in the audio information of the discourse are extracted by MFCC technique. After completing the preprocessing of discourse features, we used Bayesian classifier for classification and recognition to further refine the annotation of discourse information. The study results showed that the overall sentiment of the discourse of tutor number 1 tended to be harmful during the 30 minutes, with six segments having an emotional pleasantness of more than -2. In addition, the density of positive discourse sentiment of tutor number 3 was 0.0811 higher than that of tutor number 4. In contrast, the number of discourse labeling of tutor number 5 was reduced by 74 times. Through in-depth analysis and understanding of these discourse modalities and affective features, tutors can better adapt to the information media environment and effectively carry out ideological and political education work.

Age dynamics of graphic reflection of social identity

Social identity recently has become one of the actual subjects of scientific research in social psychology, social cognitive psychology. Social identity reflects conscious and unconscious feelings of a person’s belonging to certain communities, is the context for decision-making in situations of choice. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of little-conscious aspects of identity, namely the subjective significance of communities to which a person belongs by the fact of his birth or main activity, as well as subjective inclusion in such a community. The author has developed a procedure of graphic representation of social identity based on the techniques used in projective drawing methods. The test person is asked to draw himself and five communities (family, occupation group, locality and country of residence, all people of the world) with the help of circles. This experimental procedure was conducted in nine age groups, starting with 6-7 year olds and ending with working adults. A total of 282 people participated in the experiment. The data (21 indicators) were subjected to factor analysis by the method of principal components. The following results were obtained: for each age group the average sizes of images of self and proposed social communities were revealed, using Student’s t-criterion the conclusions about significant differences in the sizes of images of the country and territory of residence for age groups were obtained. Discussion of results and conclusions. Factor analysis by the principal component method revealed four factors of social identity, which were labeled as: multiple, hierarchical, egocentric, and diffuse social identity. The proposed types of social identity were described, their psychological interpretation was given, and criteria for identification by graphic representation were proposed. The results of the study can be used in pedagogical practice, practice of psychological and pedagogical counseling.

Parent Online University as an Effective Form of Psychological and Pedagogical Counseling and Education

The article presents the experience of counseling parents in the format of video consultations within the parent online university. This practice is one of the activities of the service for the provision of services of psychological, pedagogical, methodological and consulting assistance to parents (legal representatives of children), as well as citizens who wish to take up children left without parental care, created on the basis of the regional resource center “Family and Children” of the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University within the framework of the federal project “Modern School” of the national project “Educationˮ. Parent Online University is a high-quality educational content that meets the requirements of scientificity, gratuitousness and accessibility. The purpose of the article is to summarize the experience of the practical work of the service for the provision of services of psychological, pedagogical, methodological and consulting assistance to parents (legal representatives of children), as well as citizens who wish to adopt children left without parental care for upbringing in their families.

Methodological Foundations of Psychological and Pedagogical Counseling

The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations of psychological and pedagogical counseling in the sphere of today's education in the interdisciplinary aspects, in particular, neuropsychology and neuropedagogy. An attempt to substantiate psychological and pedagogical counseling as a service of providing psychological assistance to the client through training and forming a new experience of adaptive behavior in accordance with the requirements of the educational environment is made. Theoretical and methodological foundations of psychological and pedagogical counseling are analyzed on the basis of the works on the current issues of psychological counseling by foreign and domestic researchers. The importance of psycho-consultative interaction in the conditions of inclusive education and teaching special children, taking into account the competencies of neuropedagogy, neuropsychology and neurophysiology was substantiated. The personal approach in the methodology of today's psychological and pedagogical counseling is defined as the main one, which is integrated with psychological approaches to counseling. The methodological foundations of psychological and pedagogical counseling are defined by theoretical and methodological principles, psychological mechanisms for organizing and conducting counseling work and ethical principles and norms for manifestation of professional competence of a counselor. It was found that psychological approaches such as person-centered, problem-oriented, and professional-competence approaches are most often applied to psychological and pedagogical counseling.

Experiences of therapeutic work of the Family Therapy Team of the Specialist Psychological and Pedagogical Counselling Center „Krakowski Ośrodek Terapii” with families in peri-divorce crisis. Psychoeducation and Psychotherapeutic Program „Boat on the waves”.

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie autorskiego modelu pracy terapeutycznej z rodzinami w sytuacji kryzysu rozstania. Model pracy powstał w odpowiedzi na potrzeby rodzin, które trafiały do Specjalistycznej Poradni Psychologiczno-Pedagogicznej „Krakowski Ośrodek Terapii”, skierowanych przez sąd, bądź z własnej inicjatywy, w sytuacji kryzysu rodzinnego związanego z rozstaniem rodziców. Program Psychoedukacyjno-Psychoterapeutyczny „Łódź na falach” łączy w sobie zarówno aspekt edukacyjny, jak i terapeutyczny. Jest skierowany do dorosłych — rodziców, ale tematy poruszane podczas wykładów zawierają problematykę związaną z doświadczaniem rozstania zarówno przez rodziców, jak i ich dzieci. Program realizowany jest cyklicznie i składa się z etapu diagnozy (konsultacji indywidualnej z każdym z rodziców), etapu psychoedukacyjnego (cztery grupowe spotkania wykładowe dotyczące zagadnień związanych z psychologiczną sytuacją rozwodową rodziny) oraz etapu terapeutycznego (terapeutycznych spotkań rodzinnych prowadzonych naprzemienne, oddzielnie dla matki z dziećmi i ojca z dziećmi). Uzyskanie na etapie psychoedukacyjnym wiedzy na temat odmiennego funkcjonowania i przeżywania rozstania przez partnerów, różnic w radzeniu sobie z kryzysem, może załagodzić konflikt między nimi i ułatwić korzystanie z pomocy terapeutycznej. Natomiast możliwość kontynuowania pracy w ramach terapii rodzinnej pozwala na poszerzenie wglądu partnerów oraz staje się dla nich bezpieczną formą pracy nad relacjami w nowym układzie rodzinnym.

Pengembangan Kompetensi Religius Bagi Guru Bimbingan dan Konseling serta Calon Konselor Pendidikan

Religious competence is defined as the ability of the counselor in helping the counselee to develop optimally and the presence of happiness in life by believing in the role of God in the counseling process. The purpose of this study is to describe the importance of religious competence for BK teachers and prospective education counselors. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with interview techniques. The interviews were conducted in a structured manner with the following stages: (1) preparation (determining topics, determining data sources/respondents, compiling interview guidelines), (2) implementation (online and offline), and (3) preparing reports on the results of the interviews. The participants of this study were representatives from BKPI lecturers from IAIN Salatiga, UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim, IAIN Curup, and IAIN Batusangkar, each tertiary institution was taken by one BKPI lecturer. Total respondents in this study were 10 lecturers. The results of the study indicate that religious competence is very much needed for BK teachers and prospective education counselors. Religious competence for prospective education counselors can be implemented into the BKPI curriculum by integrating Islamic courses combined with guidance and counseling courses.

Developmental and family environment predictors of diagnostic decision-making in children with autism spectrum disorder and comorbid disorders

BackgroundClinical psychologists are observing an increasing number of children with comorbid disorders such as autism spectrum dis-order (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety disorders, depressive disorders and others. Due to the importance of higher efficacy of implementing early therapeutic interventions, factors determining the age of first diagnos-tic intervention and the age of diagnosis are particularly significant aspects when considering this topic.Participants and procedureAn in-depth analysis of the documentation of 112 patients of one of the psychological and pedagogical counselling centres was conducted to identify family and developmental factors that contribute to the diagnostic decision-making process in children with comorbid disorders. These children were 2-17 years old and diagnosed with co-occurrence of ASD and other disorders.ResultsThe results indicate that children with comorbid disorders are reported for diagnostic intervention at the age of 4 years old and 3 months old (M = 4.24, SD = 2.29) and the mean age of receiving an ASD diagnosis is 7 years old and 3 months old (M = 7.28, SD = 3.25). Predictors of the age of diagnostic intervention and ASD diagnosis were also identified. Somatic dis-eases and potentially speech disorders were related to the earlier age of diagnostic intervention, whereas learning difficul-ties were related to the later age of diagnostic intervention. Moreover, it has been found that children with comorbid ex-ternalizing disorders have an earlier age of diagnostic intervention than children without disrupting behaviours. However, this circumstance does not affect the age of ASD diagnosis.ConclusionsIt is important to raise parents’ awareness of detecting early markers of disorders as intervention and diagnosis are imple-mented too late. In such circumstances, therapeutic interventions under-taken may have limited effectiveness.

Study profile choices in secondary education: searching for factors underlying the recommendations made by school guidance counsellors and tutors to vignette students

ABSTRACT Dutch secondary education counsellors and tutors guide students in their study profile choices. Case studies were used to identify factors that characterise profile recommendations. In Case Study 1, vignette (fictitious) students asked for advice. Of the 12 participants, eight provided product advice (study profiles) and 12 provided process advice (important factors), mainly relating to students’ interests. In Case Study 2, vignette students wanted to choose between a profile for which they had better marks, or one in which they were more interested. Of the 19 participants, 12 recommended study profiles. All participants provided process recommendations: these mainly involved interests, but also marks. In both case studies, recommendations were not characterised by students’ SES, and a few were somewhat characterised by gender.

Pastoral care as shared responsibility: teachers’ perspectives in a private teaching college in Hong Kong

ABSTRACT The paper explores teachers’ endorsement of pastoral care, based on their socially and historically developed and interactively shaped understandings of teacher care, and how it surfaces in their practices. Participants are 25 academics in a self-financing teaching-oriented college in Hong Kong, in which teachers are also academic advisors for an assigned number of students and professional counselling is provided as another form of student support. The study identified three groups of teachers regarding their endorsement and enactment of pastoral care, namely, the supporters who are the overwhelming majority, the opponents and the bystanders. The author suggests that the relatively high level of endorsement and enactment of pastoral care found among the participants can be explained by its institutional, societal and cultural contexts. Implications of encouraging and facilitating teachers taking pastoral care as shared responsibility with professional counsellors in higher education are discussed.

Педагогическое консультирование в процессе развития субъектно-профессионального потенциала курсантов в образовательной организации МВД России

The article examines the importance of pedagogical consulting in the process of developing the subjective and professional potential of cadets in an educational organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The purpose of the study is to substantiate and reveal the conditions of pedagogical counseling based on helping cadets develop their abilities for self-knowledge, overcoming difficulties that arise, and a responsible and conscious attitude towards their lives. Scientific novelty lies in the development of theoretical approaches and practical recommendations of the main directions of pedagogical consulting in the educational process of a departmental university. As a result, stages were identified that contribute to the identification of existing difficulties; analysis of events that affect the behavior of cadets and require the advice of a teacher; modeling and consideration of the reasons that prevent the positive solution of emerging problems.

Socio-formative Pedagogical Counseling: Professionalization and Improvement of Teaching Practice in Compulsory Education in Northern Mexico

<p style="text-align:justify">Technical and pedagogical counseling as accompaniment benefits teachers’ development. However, there are information gaps on the specific impact of counseling with a socio-formative approach on both professionalization and the improvement of teaching practice. The objective is to analyze the relationship between these three elements. A cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach was employed. A validated questionnaire was applied to a representative sample of 212 teachers. The information analysis was carried out through statistics: descriptive, correlational, and linear regression, whose level of significance was: <.01-. 05. Teachers consider that technical and pedagogical counseling from socio-formation fosters the development of an ethical life project, promotes problem solving in their educational practice, collaborative work, metacognition, and entrepreneurship (92.78 ± 14.3). The correlational analysis showed a significant relationship between socio-formative pedagogical technical counseling and teaching practice, the latter of which was enhanced by the former. In the linear regression analysis, the best model of pedagogical technical counseling is made from socio-formation, which predicts a 71% improvement of teaching practice. As a result, this form of counseling benefits both professionalization and teaching practice through metacognition.</p>