Guidance Center Research Articles

Generalization of Foreign Experience in the Career Guidance Center Work of Urfu

The subject of the work was to improve the methodology of the career guidance center of the URFU (Yekaterinburg, Russia) by overcoming contradictions in the recommendations on the profiles of activities for people with different types of personality. An adequate recommendation is based on combination of the generalized opinion of experts (12 career centers at the US universities, authors of 8 books) on the profile of the applicant's activity (manager, agent, etc.) and 24 fields of activity. Due to this solution it was possible to evaluate each sphere for the applicant by saturation with suitable profiles. And it extremely increases his chances to realize the most significant project by the age of 39. The methodology was based on the typological concept of the personality structure from the personality type, the character type and the dominant type of intelligence. This concept in contrast with the five-factor model of the personality structure demonstrates a significant result of the work. About 70% of graduates of the Russian universities do not work on the received specialty. For 7 years the presented methodology of the vocational guidance center of the URFU (Yekaterinburg, Russia) was improved to the level at which these "lost" 70% were detected at the testing stage before entering the university. The typological model defines a large field of variations PT+CT+TI in which talent can be multidirectional. This makes the career center mission not always feasible. The center should have the ability to design a personalized project. In career centers at the US universities the applicant is recommended a variety of options where he can be useful. Thus, they shift the responsibility of the problem of choice to applicants’ shoulders. The proposed methodology allows forming a project in which he will be most effective and competitive.

On the Management of College Students under the Concept of “Cultivating Morality and Cultivating People”

In the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it is proposed that colleges and universities should take the theoretical system of “cultivating morality and cultivating people as the fundamental task of education” as the guidance center. The basic concept of “cultivating morality and cultivating people” has become the main guiding ideology for universities in China to carry out student work. While cultivating professional talents for the country, universities also shoulder the task of cultivating and inspecting the comprehensive quality of talents and are committed to cultivating comprehensive talents with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, arts and labor. Therefore, it is of great value and significance to explore the innovative modes and practical methods of student management in colleges and universities under the concept of “cultivating morality and cultivating people”. Under the theoretical system of “cultivating morality and cultivating people”, colleges and universities actively explore new paths, new forms and new methods of student management.

A Survey of education needs of professional officers at child guidance centers in Japaｎ

A Survey of education needs of professional officers at child guidance centers in Japaｎ

Towords Education 2030: Construction and Implementation of Lifelong Inclusive Education Curriculum System

Responding to the general objective of UNESCO Education 2030 Framework for Action, and promoting the development of its spirit Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, Shanghai Changning Special Education Guidance Center began to explore the lifelong inclusive education curriculum system. Based on the concepts of Lifelong, Inclusive, Support, and Talent and characterized by whole-process, whole people, inclusiveness, growth, and selectivity, the curriculum take the center project as the starting point, it integrates resources such as special education schools, teaching and research institutions, hospitals, and rehabilitation institutions. From direct services to indirect services, serving two dimensions to cut through, forming a four-dimensional LIST course for the SENs, parents, teachers, and schoolmasters. The lifelong inclusive education curriculum system is inspired by the postmodern curriculum theory, and break through the traditional special education curriculum paradigm. The lifelong inclusive education curriculum system has realized the enlargement of learning segment, the extension of handicap types, and the expansion of service objects. The construction and implementation of the curriculum system has changed the overall appearance of regional special education. The action of Shanghai Changning Special Education Guidance Center provided a sample of regional lifelong inclusive education curriculum system.

Role of Psychological and Educational Guidance Center in Reducing the University Violence from Educational Science College’s Students’ Perspective in Counseling and Mental Health Department at World Islamic Sciences and Education University

The study aimed to identify the roles of Psychological and Educational Guidance Center in Reducing the phenomenon of the university violence from the perspective of the Educational Science College’s students in Counseling and Mental Health Department at World Islamic Sciences and Education University. And to achieve the study’s goal, a sample consisted of 10 students of the Educational Science College was selected. A questionnaire was developed to collect data. Results showed that the level of students’ degree in practicing violence was moderate and media is one of the major causes of violence at university. The researcher came up with some recommendations.

Impact of Alcohol Outlet Density on Reported Cases of Child Maltreatment in Japan: Fixed Effects Analysis.

Background: Parental drinking habits or binge drinking are a known risk factor of child maltreatment. Though drinking habits are affected by alcohol outlet density, the direct association between alcohol outlet density and child maltreatment is still controversial.Purpose: This study aimed to examine the impact of off-premises alcohol outlet density on child maltreatment cases reported to Child Guidance Centers in Japan.Methods: A fixed effects model was used to investigate the association between a change in off-premises alcohol outlet density and a change in child maltreatment cases in each unit. Time-series of cross-sectional ecological data collected from across Japan over 16 years (2000 to 2015) was used, and maltreatment cases were further sub-grouped by type of maltreatment (physical, sexual, psychological abuse and neglect) and by perpetrators (father, stepfather, mother, and stepmother).Results: The association between alcohol outlet density and total cases of child maltreatment was not observed (coefficient = 0.98, 95% confidence interval: −6.30, 8.25). However, alcohol outlet density was shown to be positively associated with neglect (coefficient = 3.08, 95% confidence interval: 0.54, 5.62), which indicates that 1 alcohol outlet per 1,000 adults increase would lead to 3 more neglect cases per 10,000 children. Also, a negative association was observed between a change in the incidence of total child maltreatment by father and a change in alcohol outlet density (coefficient = −3.03, 95% confidence interval: −5.78, −0.28).Conclusion: The findings suggest that off-premises alcohol outlet density may have a causal effect on the increasing cases of neglect and decrease in maltreatment by father in Japan.

Helping Troubled Children and Cultivating the Race: The Mental Hygienic Guidance Centres of the Public Health Association of Swedish Finland, 1930s–1950s

Summary This article looks at the mental hygienic guidance centres of the Public Health Association of Swedish Finland (Samfundet Folkhälsan, or Folkhälsan for short). For Folkhälsan, mental hygiene was a part of a broader context, in which public health and racial hygiene were fundamentally motivated by Finland-Swedish minority nationalism. Folkhälsan’s mental hygienic ideas are illuminated through the interrelated frames of degeneration and social engineering. The former portrayed mental and social deviance as a social, biological and moral threat to the collective, whereas the latter saw social behaviour, including maladjustment, as a phenomenon that could be influenced. For Folkhälsan’s mental hygienists, it was central to determine type and degree of abnormality; whether the clients were socially maladjusted ‘problem children’ or ‘feeble-minded children’. In both cases, the problem was seen to be caused by (lower-class) parents: through incompetent parenting and/or by passing on poor mental qualities to their offspring.

DANISH GOOD PRACTICES FOR COMBATTING EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING: A CASE STUDY FROM COPENHAGEN

This study focuses on comprehensive measures related to Early School Leaving (ESL) and on effective institutions in the Danish Education System, more particularly, on the everyday practices of the Youth Guidance Centre of Copenhagen (hereafter YGCC) and the Copenhagen Youth School System (hereafter CYSS) by giving voices to participants who work and study there. The research also points out the main role of CYSS in promoting school attendance through the lense of dropouts/at-risk students. For the qualitative inquiry, empirical data were collected from observations conducted in CYSS; a total of 18 interviews with former students; and a total of 20 interviews with a range of stakeholders including policy makers, school management, teachers and guidance counsellors. The qualitative research described herein had the potential to be more sensitive to the micro-processes of students’ experiences in education in order to get a deeper insight into the characteristics of the Danish institutional network that adapts flexibly to the needs of students and of a local community. Article visualizations:

PSYCHO-SOCIAL PRE-RETIREMENT PLANS OF LECTURERS IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA.

Abstract The study investigated lecturers’ psycho-social pre-retirement plans in public universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Two (2) research questions were formulated and answered while two (2) hypotheses were tested at 0.05alpha level. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consisted of all the 2330 lecturers in the three public universities in Rivers State. As at the time of this study, each of the universities has the following population breakdown respectively: University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) 1500, Rivers State University (RSU) 556, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) 274 making a total of 2330 lecturers from the three (3) public universities in Rivers State. (Source: Registry Department of the various institutions 2017). A sample size of 932 was used. The sample size was drawn using simple random sampling technique from the three universities in Rivers State. The instrument for the study was titled “Lecturers Psycho-Social Pre-Retirement Plans Scale” (LPSPRPS). Simple percentage was used to answer the research questions while Chi-Square statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. It was found among others that 46% of the lecturers agree that they have financial plans while 54% disagree. It was recommended among others that Pre-Retirement Guidance and Counselling centres should be established in university communities where lecturers who have emotional problems can go and seek help from counsellors.

Talent Management System at I.N. Ulianov Сhuvash State University

Involving the talented youth in the processes of innovation development is an important factor in the development of the society and modernization of the Russian economy. The national education system defines working with gifted children and young people as a key priority. The role of universities in youth talents training and management increases inasmuch the purpose of educational institutions is not only training of specialists with the highest professional qualification but creating the so-called intellectual elite of the country as well. The model of talent management system functioning at I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University is described in the article. The article examines the complex multi-level system presented by interaction between elements «school – higher education provider – production». The basic forms of identifying and following up gifted schoolchildren and students and forms of supporting young lecturers are considered. A number of the University structural subdivisions such as Centre for working with the gifted youth, Center of Supplementary Education, Vocational Guidance Center, Innovation-implementation Center take part in working with talents by implementing a year-round complex of events. One of the key factors in functioning the talent management system is staffing. With a view to maintaining continuity, fostering young teachers’ motivation the University implements in-house target programs. One of the most effective forms of preserving and transferring the best practices of professional adaptation is tutorship. A multilevel approach makes it possible to create conditions for maximum revealing talents in students, professionals and to build the system of continuity within the system of working with young talents.

Proposed System for Securing Aircraft Guidance Commands

This paper introduces a system for transmitting the aircraft guidance command over a narrow band communication channel in a secured way. The paper takes into account the noise, which exists in the guidance center. The proposed system is based on speech recognition and consists of two modules; one on the ground and the other is on the onboard. Guidance command words are modeled using Hidden Markov Modeling (HMM) and stored in the onboard module. During operation the input guidance word is processed and transmitted in a coded form from the ground module to the aircraft. The onboard module recognizes the words using HMM speech recognizer. The feature extraction technique used in this work is the Perceptual Linear Predictive (PLP) coding, which shows good immunity to noise. The performance measure is the recognition accuracy at different SNRs, as well as the achieved compression ratio of the transmitted message.

Reforming youth transition support with the multi-agency approach? A case study of the Finnish one-stop guidance centers

Finland is trying to expedite and support young people?s transition to productive adulthood in various ways. Face-to-face guidance in multi-agency service points, the One-Stop Guidance Centers, has formed a central means for the last three governments. In these centres, a young person under the age of 30 can get help from different professionals in matters related to work, education and everyday life. This study asks how the centres define their tasks and target groups, and how the centres relate to the service reformation. The data consists of peer-learning surveys for the employees of the centres, conducted in 2015, 2016 and 2017.The research approach is inspired by membership categorisation analysis (MCA) pointing out that institutions think and act by means of categories: they produce client classifications and problem definitions, which define their service provision. The data analysis mixes MCA and content analysis. The centres have no dominant administrative sector or profession that would provide the target settings and categorisations to be directly applied in their work. Instead, these are negotiated inter-professionally and locally. The analysis shows that the employees reflect their task against the problems of the old service provision system. The centres want to stand apart from the bureaucratic and siloed service provision system as a youth-centred and holistic service. Developing a new way of working necessarily means questioning the conventional categories of clients and actions. Yet, the possibility to develop the ?new? varies between the professional groups and the geographic areas. The detailed and detached legislation of different administrative branches also delimit it.

Characteristics of Interpersonal Support Activities and Specific Interpersonal Support Competence of Public Health Nurses at Child Guidance Centers: A Quantitative Text Analysis

Characteristics of Interpersonal Support Activities and Specific Interpersonal Support Competence of Public Health Nurses at Child Guidance Centers: A Quantitative Text Analysis

Social representations of epilepsy and therapeutic routes of parents of epileptic children in Abidjan

The present study examines the influence of representations of childhood epilepsies in their generalized form on the therapy courses of parents seeking treatment for their epileptic children. The approach used is retrospective, quantitative and qualitative. The data collection was done through the analysis of the medical records of 81 children diagnosed with epilepsy and treated at the Abidjan Infant Guidance Center over a period of 18 months (January 2015 to June 2016), and a semi-directive interview administered to their parents who came with them for their medical follow-up. The data collected were treated by the ?khi carré of Pearson''. The results obtained, interpreted in the light of Herzlich's theory of social representations [16], confirm that representations of infantile epilepsies influence the care of parents of children who are infected. The care for epileptic children requires: the adherence of parents of children with epilepsy to the care project taking into account their care path, the training of community health workers, multidisciplinary research studies on childhood epilepsies.

Prevention of Chlamydia Infections With Theater in School Sex Education.

The aim of the study was to evaluate if an intervention including theater in school sex education affects students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding condom use in Sweden. The study was a cluster randomized controlled trial. The intervention group got a play, value exercises, chlamydia games, condom school, and interactive replay with professional actors and staff from a youth guidance center. The control group got standard sex education from school staff. Students in both groups answered web surveys on knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding condom use. Posteducation, knowledge on condom use, chlamydia, and protection had increased in both groups. However, students in the intervention group showed higher levels of knowledge, improved attitudes, and less risky behavior in regard to condom use compared to the control group. The intervention titled SAFETY seemed to be a beneficial supplement to standard sex education and more effective with regard to knowledge of condom use.

PUSAT INFORMASI DAN KONSELING GERAKAN BEBAS NARKOBA REMAJA MUHAMMADIYAH

Drug prevention in adolescent Muhammadiyah can be implemented through a school program. School programs need to work with school counselors to establish a Skills-Based Free Drug Information and Counseling Center. The method used in Information and counseling center is (1) education, (2) training, and (3) forum discussion group. Peer guidance, peer support, and peer counseling centers with counselors on skills-based students. Cognitive, affective, and skill dimension as the main goal of the drug-free movement. Skills developed in students are open-ended questions, listening to reflection exercises, role-playing, motivational interview skills, and model stages of change.

How regulations of multidisciplinary diagnostic settings for children with a neurobiological developmental delay or disorder impact on integration of care: the case of Flanders, Belgium

Introduction: An early and fluent diagnostic trajectory, accessible for every child, is currently not guaranteed in Flanders despite the availability of different types of settings offering multidisciplinary diagnostics for neurobiological developmental delays or disorders NDDD. Regulative, organizational and work practice differences potentially impact on the development of collaborative networks guaranteeing accessible and integrated diagnostics, along the trajectories of children. Methods: Mapping the regulative frameworks at the federal and community levels for specialized multidisciplinary diagnostic teams for children with suspected NDDD in Flanders. Analysis of policy documents and legal frameworks of the centers for ambulatory rehabilitation CAR, centers for developmental disorders CDD, student guidance centers SGC, ambulatory mental health care centers MHC, autism reference centers ARC, ambulatory hospital services for pediatric neuropsychiatry APP. Results: Organizations are currently regulated by Federal or Community regulations. The different organizations providing multidisciplinary diagnostics for NDDD fall under different policy domains mental health, rehabilitation, hospitals, education. Federal regulations are more detailed and regulate more aspect than community regulations. For diagnostics at a CAR or MHC, children have to be referred. The regulations on target group facility for the CAR, ARC and MHC, is pathology-based; on CDD, SGC and APP more generally described. In a CAR, MHC and APP diagnostics aim at support and rehabilitation. Diagnostics at SGC aims at support, referral and coordination. ARC and CDD do clinical classifying diagnostics, referral and further coordination. The ARC uses a standardized protocol for diagnostics. The regulations on team composition numbers and disciplines are set for the CDD and MHC; more detailed rules are set for ARC, CAR, SGC and APP. Discussion: Literature on policy or mandated networks suggests that network approaches help to tackle complex problems, if settings offer complementary services and are mutually dependent to reach societal goals. The current confusion and ineffectiveness in the field is partly affected by regulations that do not promote collaboration and complementarity. Services were historically regulated specifically in different fields sectors. Those regulations do not refer to collaboration or cooperation. For the population, it is not clear what types of service are offered, how they differ from or overlap with each other, or for what purpose different organizations can be consulted. Conclusion: Regulations in public services impact on the organization of services and clinical practice. Current regulations in Flanders are not adapted to support network practice and an integrated way of providing accessible diagnostics along NDDD trajectories. Lessons learned: Current regulative frameworks for multidisciplinary diagnostics of NDDD are not adequately adapted to implement accessible and integrated care. The literature on mandated or policy networks urges to develop supportive regulative frameworks identifying complementarities of the different types of facilities. Limitations: Private, non-subsidized multidisciplinary settings are not included. Suggestions for future research: Additional health service research is needed on differences in organizational practice in the field of multidisciplinary diagnostics of NDDD, affecting network development, and on governance mechanisms supporting the development of integrated care. This should include research on factors affecting the accessibility of services.

Exit Questionnaire Survey, University of Bohol, Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines S.Y. 2016-2017

The practice and principle of assuring, understanding, and managing quality education have been embedded in higher education. In a scholastic institution, there are academic and non-academic endeavors designed to uphold the mission of the school. The University of Bohol implemented curricular and co-curricular activities on the premise of actualizing its mission to provide a holistic education anchored in the trinity of virtues: scholarship, character, and service. CHED CMO Order No. 09 Series of 2013 indicates that an educational institution should seek to develop an individual who will later become productive citizens of the country and the world. Its responsibility is not only confined to the teaching and development of job skills, but also the acquisition of life skills and values. These individuals should be able to contribute positively to the progress of his/her country, and the upliftment of human conditions. Higher education institutions must provide student-centered activities and services in support of academic instruction intended to facilitate holistic and well-rounded student development for active involvement as future responsible citizens and leaders. These institutions shall ensure full implementation of this policy and guideline and provide mechanisms for its monitoring and evaluation. Thus, to find out the attainment of its purpose and the effectiveness of the curriculum and support services, the University of Bohol through the Guidance Center, an integral part of the educational system creates programs for student development as well as monitoring and proper evaluation of such programs conducted an exit survey through the use of questionnaire in a web-based format to the graduating students of the academic year 2016-2017. The results are divided into three categories, namely: the general curriculum, skills acquired, and relationship with administration, faculty, and student services staff.

Healthcare professionals' lived experiences of conversations with young adults expressing existential concerns.

This paper describes first-line department healthcare professionals' experiences of conversations with young adults (16-25 years) who express existential concerns. Existential concerns encompass questions about the meaning of life and the choices people must make, and they are sometimes expressed during the period in which a child is becoming an adult. Sometimes the transition to adulthood can be difficult, and many young adults seek support from people in first-line departments, such as primary care providers, youth guidance centre personnel and student health service employees in high schools and universities. Conversations in which existential concerns are recognised may be important for preventing mental illness in the future. The study aimed to describe healthcare professionals' lived experiences of conversations with young adults who express existential concerns. This qualitative study utilises thematic meaning analysis. Interviews were conducted with healthcare professionals working in first-line departments, and data were analysed based on the principles of reflective lifeworld research. The study followed ethical codes of conduct and conformed to the ethical guidelines adopted by the Swedish Research Council. The results are presented in three themes of meaning: searching for innermost thoughts requires being present, uncertainty about the unpredictable and awakening of one's own existential concerns. Healthcare professionals are affected when young adults express their existential concerns, and they need more support to strengthen their ability to stay present and create inviting atmospheres.

「子ども虐待」への保護者参加型支援モデルの構築を目指して : 児童相談所における家族再統合についての取り組み

「子ども虐待」への保護者参加型支援モデルの構築を目指して : 児童相談所における家族再統合についての取り組み