Counsellor professional competencies in social and labour environments

Authors

  • Luis Sobrado Fernández Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
  • Ana Couce Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
  • Raquel Rial Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.14.num.2.2003.11611

Keywords:

competences, diagnosis, professional, guidance, advising, counsellor, diagnosis of the necessities and professional competences, evaluation of services and guidance programmes

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In this article the profesional competence of the Laboral Counsellor is debated understood as the power of knowledge, attitudes, skills and knowhow as a consecuence of the achieved training. The study that is shown is the result of a investigation made with a team of 81 Profesional Counsellors that practise in the Galician Autonomous Community and that is about the following aims: 1º. To describe the personal and professional profile of the Laboral Counsellors. 2º. To diagnose the counselling competences that make in their professional practice, the ones that they should make and the preparation in them. 3º. To explore the dimensions that are related to guidance competences. As a n investigating methodology the Delphi technique was worked with a group of twelve expert Counsellors and a questionnaire of competences to be valued by the team of 81 Professionals in the Laboral Guidance. As the main conclusions of the work the professional competences of Advising, Guidance and Diagnosis in the studied group. The main profile of the Counsellor that is described corresponds to a young person, female, with little professional experience in general and specifically counselling, with an academic degree in Pedagogy, labour access through temporal hiring and that practise in an Employment Public Office.

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Sobrado Fernández, L., Couce, A., & Rial, R. (2014). Counsellor professional competencies in social and labour environments. REOP - Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía, 14(2), 41–62. https://doi.org/10.5944/reop.vol.14.num.2.2003.11611

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