The study of duties and roles of highschool counsellors by using the technique of focus groups
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https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.20.num.1.2009.11437Keywords:
focus groups, counsellors, roles and dutiesAbstract
ABSTRACT
The following paper exposes the results and conclusions of a study where the technique of Focus Groups about roles and duties of Highschool Counsellors in both private and public school of Huelva and it’s province, are done.
The main goal was to analize the profesional situation of the counsellors in Huelva’s highschools and province. As the objectives of the study were given beforehand, the technique used was focus groups. Thirty four counsellors were distributed in four groups; of those four of them worked in Public cen‐ tres and one in a private‐concerted one with a total which goes from four to nine participants. This works presents the process of anaylisis, the most representative result of the investigation and the final conclusions which are:
- The tutorial guidance is mediated by the sensitivity of the school’s head committee.
- The most developed duties of the counsellors are those of advice and enquires, a long with guidance, assessment and coordination.
- The assorted problems that the counsellor finds in his day by day work.
- It is necessary to clear up, delimit and specify the duties that the counsellors have to do.
- Although Counsellors know the advantages of working with a model of programmes they have to work demandded by daily pressures.
- Due to the few definitions of their duties, the fulfilment of these is tremendoualy influences by the personal caracteristics of the counsellor in question.
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