“Models of the vocational
counsellor`s career perfromance”
Aneta Slowik
Bozena Wojtasik
Cross - Border Seminar, Bratislava, 15 -16 th April 2010
“Professional Care for Guidance Practitioners – Who Cares for Those
Who Care”
Programme of our workshop
• Introduction of ourselves
• Mini – Lecture – 5 models of the vocational
counsellor`s work performance based on
research B. Wojtasik
• Play – roles: 2 of them
• Personal reflections on my work as a counsellor
based on models
Mini - Lecture
• 5 models of the vocational counsellor`s work
performance:
Behavioural concept of
a human being –
directive counselling
EXPERT
Cognitive concept of
a human being –
dialogue counselling
INFORMANT
CONSULTANT
Psychodynamic and
humanist concept of a
human being – liberal
counselling
RELIABLE
GUARDIAN
LAISSEZFAIREIST
Characteristics of 5 models`
• The expert and informant
• Laissez – faireist and reliable
guardian
• Consultant
The expert and informant
• Directive counselling
• Significant superiority of the counsellor over the
counselee
• The counsellor ”knows what is good and desirable” for a
client
• Counsellor provides a client with ready made – solutions
• Counsellor undertakes the following actions: positive
reinforcements, persuading, convincing, evaluating,
giving guidelines, lecturing and training
Laissez – faireist and reliable guardian
•
Liberal counselling
•
Counsellor leaves a counselee a significant amount of
liberty
•
He emphasises the strong points of a counselee and
his/her enormous human potential
•
Counsellor should be congruent, unconditionally respect the
counselee and accept him/her as he or she is, empathise with the
feelings of the counselee and not evaluate or criticise
•
Counselee is self-reliant, defines his or her problems and helps him
or herself
Mini - lecture
5 models of the vocational counsellor`s work
performance • Psychological concepts of a human being:
- behavioural (B.F. Skinner, J. Wolpe, A.Bandura),
- cognitive (J. Bruner, U. Neisser, J.
Kozielecki)
- psychodynamic/humanist (E. Fromm, R. May,
S. Freud,)/(C.R. Rogers, A.H Maslow)
• Types of counselling: directive, dialogue and liberal
(A. Kargulowa)
Consultant
• Dialogue counselling
• Counsellor will be the partner of the counselee
• Counsellor`s actions includes new aspects of activities
and inspiration to set new goals
• Counselee analyses a problem, gains new information,
experiments with new ideas, discusses her/his choices
• Counsellor and counselee share the responsibility for a
vocational choice decision
• Problems are solved together
Play - roles
- Directive counselling – the
expert and informant (one
person takes a role of
counselor another counselee
in this counselling situation)
- Liberal counselling - laissez –
faireist and reliable guardian
(one person takes a role of
counselor another counselee
in this counselling situation)
You as a counsellor – personal reflection
1. Which model are you working on in your workplacement?
2. Which model do you prefer as a counsellor?
3. Which model do you have to use as a counsellor? And why?
Please, discuss in your group
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EXPERT
?
INFORMANT
?
CONSULTANT
?
RELIABLE
GUARDIAN
?
LAISSEZFAIREIST
You as a counsellor – personal reflection
• Please, draw your lifespine as a counsellor
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CONCLUSION
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