Grâce aux apports de la sociologie de l’action publique, des groupes professionnels et de l’institution, on cherche à comprendre dans cette recherche, consacrée à une sociogenèse du métier de conseiller d’orientation de 1959 à 1993, l’échec (relatif) des conseillers d’orientation pour imposer, et, corrélativement, occuper un domaine de compétences stable, reconnu et valorisé, au sein de l’enseignement secondaire, de 1959 à 1993. Convoitant le champ de compétences du cycle d’observation des aptitudes des élèves – apparaissant dans l’Entre-deux-guerres -, les conseillers d’orientation n’intègrent qu’officiellement l’enseignement secondaire en 1959 avec la réforme de l’enseignement Berthoin. Néanmoins, l’examen du processus d’élaboration des politiques scolaires des années 1950 montre que leurs savoirs et pratiques professionnelles, hérités de la psychologie expérimentale, se heurtent aux logiques dominantes structurant les politiques scolaires, à savoir la préservation de l’ordre scolaire, « menacé » par l’explosion scolaire, et la recherche d’une adéquation de l’École avec l’économie. Ces finalités génèrent une redéfinition du métier de conseiller d’orientation dans les années 1960 neutralisant du même coup les dimensions critiques de leur expertise psychologique. Le conseiller d’orientation est alors censé dépister les « inadaptés scolaires » et informer les élèves des débouchés professionnels. Profitant de la critique de l’arbitraire, dénoncé notamment durant Mai-Juin 68, et de l’avènement de l’échec scolaire comme problème public légitime au début des années 1970, les conseillers d’orientation réussissent à préserver l’unité relative de leur métier et à occuper le champ d’intervention professionnelle de l’échec scolaire. Pour les acteurs des politiques scolaires, ils doivent participer à la fabrication du consentement des élèves à leurs destins scolaires et professionnels, mais doivent également assurer l’information professionnelle des jeunes. Le métier de conseiller d’orientation oscille entre ces deux finalités, y compris de 1981 à 1989. Sous le ministère de l’Education nationale de Lionel Jospin, l’idée du nécessaire consentement de l’élève à son devenir scolaire et professionnel est à nouveau au cœur de la politique scolaire. Elle s’inscrit dans le sillage de l’entreprise de modernisation de l’Ecole, nouvelle thématique au milieu des années 1980. C’est dans ce contexte que s’organise la revendication des porte-paroles des conseillers d’orientation d’être reconnu comme psychologue, statut protégé par la loi de mars 1985. Garantissant leur légitimité à intervenir dans le champ d’intervention professionnelle de l’échec scolaire, le statut de psychologue prémunit le groupe professionnel de redéfinitions illimitées de leur métier ou, du moins, en délimite le champ des possibles. / Thanks to the contributions of the sociology of public policy, of professions and of the institution, we try to understand in this research, devoted to a sociogenesis of the profession of guidance counsellor from 1959 to 1993, the (relative) failure of guidance counsellors to impose, and, correlatively, to occupy a stable, recognized and valorised jurisdiction within secondary education from 1959 to 1993.Claiming the tasks areas of the pupils' abilities observation cycle – appearing in the inter-war period -, the guidance counsellors only officially incorporate middle school in 1959 with the Berthoin education reform. Nevertheless, the examination of the school policy-making process of the 1950s shows that their professional knowledge and practices, inherited from experimental psychology, are confronted with the dominant logic of school policies, namely preservation of the school system, “threatened” by the school explosion, and the search for adequacy of the School with the economy. These aims generate a redefinition of the profession of guidance counsellor in the 1960s, neutralizing at the same time the critical dimensions of their psychological expertise. The guidance counsellor is then supposed to detect the "unsuitable pupils" and to inform the pupils of the career opportunities. Taking advantage of the criticism of arbitrariness, denounced in particular during the events of May-June 1968, and the advent of academic failure as a legitimate public problem in the early 1970s, guidance counsellors succeeded in preserving the relative unity of their expertise and in occupying the field of professional intervention of school failure. For policy-makers, they must be involved in making pupils' consent to their academic and professional destiny, but must also ensure the professional information of young people. The profession of guidance counsellor oscillates between these two purposes, from 1981 to 1989. Under the Lionel Jospin's Ministry of Education, the idea of the necessary consent of the pupil to his educational and professional future is once again at the heart of school policy. It is in line with the modernization of the School system, a new theme of the mid-1980s. In this context the claim of spokespersons of counsellors is organized. It aims at the recognition of counsellors as psychologists, a status protected by the law of March 1985. Guaranteeing their legitimacy to intervene in the tasks areas of academic failure, the status of psychologist protects the professional group from unlimited redefinitions of their profession or, at least, delimits the scope of possibilities

Individanpassat missbruksarbete är grundläggande inom svensk missbruk- och beroendevård. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur missbrukshandläggare inom socialtjänsten arbetar med personer som har intellektuell funktionsnedsättning i kombination med alkoholmissbruk. Sex kvalitativa intervjuer genomfördes med missbrukshandläggare inom socialtjänsten. Intervjuerna analyserades genom en tematisk analys. Studien visade att missbrukshandläggare upplever arbetet med målgruppen som svårt och utmanande då de inte har stöd i de nationella riktlinjerna samt att bedömningsinstrument och insatser inte är anpassade för denna målgrupp. Bristerna gör att missbrukshandläggares egna erfarenheter samt individuella kunskaper om målgruppen avgör hur utformade insatserna blir för den enskilde klienten. Resultatet har diskuterats i relation till tidigare forskning, systemteori och stigmateorin. Studien indikerar att det finns behov av ytterligare forskning kring denna målgrupp. / Individualized addiction work is fundamental in Swedish addiction treatment. The purpose of the study was to investigate how addiction counsellors in the social services work with people with intellectual disabilities in combination with alcohol abuse. Six qualitative interviews were conducted with addiction counsellors in the social service. The interviews were analysed through a thematic analysis. The study showed that addiction counsellors experience working with the target group as difficult and challenging as they don´t have support in the national guidelines and that assessment instruments and interventions are not adapted for this target group. The shortcomings mean that addiction counsellors own experiences as well as individual knowledge of the target group determine how the interventions are designed for the individual client. The results have been discussed in relation to previous research, system theory and stigma theory. The study indicates that there is a need for further research on this target group.

This qualitative study explores the factual knowledge base and cultural competence of school health counsellors regarding Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in a school setting in Sweden. Through four semi-structured interviews, the research explored participants’ understanding of FGC and their cultural competence in addressing this sensitive issue. Thematic analysis and the lens of social convention theory were applied to interpret the collected data. Results indicate that the school health counsellor’s team demonstrated to some extent factual knowledge and cultural competence regarding FGC. However, challenges such as time constraints, language barriers, and fear of evoking trauma emerged during their work with this concept in a school environment. Aligning with social convention theory, the participant's effort was seen as challenging the continuation of FGC within the Swedish context. The study contributes to the broader discourse on the role of school health counsellors in promoting awareness, prevention, and support for culturally sensitive topics related to the well-being of the student. The study concludes by advocating for culturally inclusive resources within the school to effectively tackle and disseminate knowledge on FGC, emphasizing the importance of addressing this issue within the educational system.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur individer upplever den frivilliga omställningsprocessen. För att besvara syftet genomförs kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta respondenter. Respondenterna upplever sin omställningsprocess som tillfälligheter och möjligheter, begränsningar och hinder samt framtidstro. Skälen som anges tematiseras utifrån livspusslet, flykt och självförverkligande. Respondenterna beskriver och reflekterar vidare om det stöd de haft och behövt under omställningsprocessen. Resultatet analyseras mot teorierna, planned happenstance, life-span och sociodynamisk vägledning, för att öka vår förståelse kring hur respondenterna påverkas och hanterar den frivilliga omställningen. I och med den föränderliga arbetsmarknaden ökar omställningsprocesser i samhället vilket innebär att behovet av vägledning ökar. Resultatet i vår studie visar dock att det finns stor okunskap kring vad studie- och yrkesvägledning innebär. Vi avslutar studien med att ställa oss frågan; vart vänder man sig om man varken är arbetslös eller student? / The purpose of the study is to examine how individuals experience the voluntary career changeprocess. To answer the purpose, qualitative interviews are conducted with eight respondents. The respondents experience their voluntary career change process as happenstances and opportunities, limitations and obstacles, and faith in the future. The reasons given are thematicized based on the life challenges, flight and self-realisation. The respondents describe and reflect further on the support they had and needed during the career change process. The results are analysed against the theories of planned happenstance, life-span and sociodynamic counselling to increase our understanding of how the respondents are affected and manage the voluntary career change. With the changing labour market, career change processes in society increase, which means that the need for guidance increases. However, the results of our study show that there is great ignorance about the means of guidance counsellors. We conclude the study by asking the question, where do you turn if you are neither unemployed nor a student?

The purpose of this study is to tell the story of lay trauma counsellors - how the work they do affects them, what helps them to cope and what hinders their coping. The epistemological framework of this study is constructivism. This study involved in-depth interviews with three lay trauma counsellors from different cultural backgrounds who counselled for a minimum of one year. Hermeneutics was the method used to analyse the data. The stories of participants were recounted through the researcher’s lens in the form of specific themes that emerged for individual participants. Recurring themes evident in the stories of all three participants were discussed and compared with the literature. The information gleaned could be valuable to organisations considering setting up lay trauma programmes, to those with established programmes, as well as to prospective and experienced lay counsellors. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

Recent literature by several eminent psychotherapists ·such as Bergin and Beutler argues that counsellors' personal values are probably the greatest influence on the success and outcome of therapy and that the counsellor tends to convert the client to the counsellor's values. This literature provided strong support for this researcher's contention of the need for similar studies in pastoral counselling. The researcher was particularly concerned about the role of pastoral counsellors' value systems and moral judgement development in counselling situations. The researcher selected the Rokeach Value Survey and the Rest Defining Issues Test as instruments to test a sample of South African pastoral counsellors in this regard. The research questions addressed were as follows. Firstly, what are the value systems of a sample of pastoral counsellors in the South African context? Secondly, what are the moral judgement development levels of the pastoral counsellors? Thirdly, what is the relationship between the rank ordering of values and pastoral counsellors' levels of moral judgement development? Fourthly, what implications could these variables have for pastoral-client pairing in pastoral counselling? The chief findings were as follows. Firstly, the pastoral counsellors were shown to have conservative value systems with a preference for introspective terminal values over social terminal values. Secondly, the pastoral counsellors had a P score of 39.6 on the Defining Issues Test. This compares favourably with Asian university students who score between 36-40 as opposed to American university students who have a mean P score of 42.6. The researcher concluded that the conservative religious ideology of the sample helped to explain the low P scores somewhat. Thirdly, the Spearman correlational coefficient indicated little correlation between the Rokeach Value Survey and the Rest Defining Issues Test. Fourthly, both instruments indicated that the conservative nature of the pastoral counsellors would no doubt make them very effective counsellors in most denominations. They would tend to counsel in support of the status quo in the church. A major recommendation of the study was the need for further pastoral counsellor education in dealing with moral values issues. / Practical Theology / D.Th. (Practical theology)

<p>Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust is an organisation that trains and supervises a team of women counsellors who provide a counselling service to women rape survivors. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of the counsellors and the counselling co-ordinator regarding their perceptions on whether the training provided by the personal growth and counselling skills course is adequate in dealing with rape and its complexities.</p>

The newly revised 2017-2018 British Columbian high school curriculum, as a prevention education response to a growing concern around children and youths’ mental health, indicates that students will learn the signs and symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression and be able to explain strategies to promote mental well-being (Province of British Columbia, 2016). Youth voices may help in shaping this curriculum objective. This study explores the meaning that five high school students, who were trained to facilitate an anxiety-prevention program, make of the problem of anxiety and prevention through their narratives, applying a narrative methodology and analysis. These youth narratives do not provide a singular explanation, truth or understanding of anxiety; like all narratives, they hold multiple truths. The youth narratives are drawn from the participants’ local experiential knowledge as well as prevailing discourses that shape their understanding. The types of narratives in this inquiry include: i) the quest for problem-free childhoods; ii) the genesis of knowledge; and iii) overcoming giant stigma by connecting. There are implications and considerations pulled from the narratives, including how a prevailing psychologized discourse may obscure contextual factors in making sense of anxiety and prevention. This inquiry may help educators and other professionals to imagine what else could be possible in conceptualizing the problem of anxiety and implementing prevention programs. It is hoped that this study will add to the current dialogue around prevention and support strategies in British Columbian schools and beyond. / Graduate / 0525 / 0680 / 0519 / 0533 / 0347 / arfelix3@gmail.com

The prevalence of HIV infection in pregnant women is still on the rise despite existing preventive programmes aimed at reducing HIV-transmission. Voluntary counselling and testing during pregnancy is the key entry point in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (Department of Health, 2000:16; Birdsall et al. 2004:3). Women are often diagnosed as being HIV-positive for the first time when they attend antenatal clinics and consent to HIV testing (UNAIDS, 1997). The objective of this study was to determine the pregnant women's experiences of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and to explore and describe the impeding and facilitating factors that played a role in their choice whether or not to consent to HIV testing after having received pre-test counselling. By understanding the impeding and facilitating factors that play a role in the pregnant woman's choice to undergo HIV testing, recommendations could be made to possibly improve the uptake of HIV testing among pregnant women. The population studied in this research consisted of pregnant women making use of antenatal clinics in the Potchefstroom sub-district. Purposive sampling was used to select participants with the assistance of mediators who were working in the local clinics and the hospital. The sample size was determined by data saturation, which was reached after 10 interviews. A qualitative design was used and data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was carried out simultaneously with data collection. In consensus discussions, the researcher and the co-coder reached consensus on the main and sub-themes. The main themes are the facilitating and impeding factors that play a role in the pregnant women's choice to undergo HIV testing. Based on findings, it was concluded that facilitating and impeding factors that play a role in the pregnant woman's choice to HIV testing do indeed exist. Impeding factors identified were: fear of a positive status; fear of stigmatization and discrimination; fear of lack of support; lack of opportunity to consider their choice to undergo HIV testing; lack of trust that confidentiality will indeed be honoured; fear of knowing possible positive HIV-status that can lead to feelings of depression and mental anguish; differences between counsellors' and pregnant women's characteristics. Facilitating factors consist of the desire to be aware of own HIV status; desire to protect the baby; sufficient information and the importance of trust and confidentiality. Recommendations were subsequently made to make HIV counselling and testing services to pregnant women more user-friendly in order to facilitate the pregnant woman in her choice concerning HIV-testing. Heeding these recommendations will possibly lead to more pregnant women's HIV status being known by the time they go into labour. Recommendations were made that pregnant women be counselled for HIV testing during their first antenatal visit and the HIV-testing being offered to them during the second visit. Research findings reveal that most pregnant women need time to consider their choice to undergo HIV testing and to prepare themselves for the test. Most pregnant women felt that they would possibly consent to HIV testing during their second antenatal visit. / Thesis (M.Cur.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Background HIV infection continues to be a challenge in South Africa with new infections reported at alarming rates. Health Care Workers (HCWs) who are nurses consequently have frequent contact with HIV positive and TB co-infected patients. During this contact their counselling behaviour is influenced by their knowledge, beliefs and attitudes about HIV and AIDS, STIs and TB (HAST) and may influence provision as well as the quality of HAST counselling behaviour. Aim The aim of the study was to assess eThekwini Municipality Health Care Workers’ knowledge, beliefs and attitudes regarding counselling behaviour for HAST and to make recommendations based on the findings of this study. Methods A descriptive cross sectional study design was used in which data about HAST counselling behaviour were collected using self administered questionnaires. The study population was all the nurses working at eThekwini Municipality Health clinics that were on duty at the time of the study and excluded those nurses who were absent or on leave during the period of data collection. Informed consent was signed by each respondent. Data were captured using SPSS version 14 and univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis was undertaken. The level of significance was P<0, 05. Results The HCWs were well informed regarding counselling behaviour for HAST. HCWs with university education scored higher than those with college level of education but there were no statistically significant differences between the HCWs with the university education and those with college education. However some HCWs’ attitudes and beliefs about poverty were negative and may not be helpful in improving a patient’s health. Results showed that some HCWs’ negative attitudes about HAST counselling resulted from fear of HIV and or TB infection. Age and the level of education showed statistically significant association with beliefs. Older, better educated HCWs with a university education scored higher for knowledge for HAST counselling behaviour. There was no statistical significant difference found between HCWs who see less than 100 patients per day and those who see more than 100 patients per day. Conclusion The findings of the study show that HCWs were well informed regarding counselling behaviour for HAST, even though some HCWs have negative attitudes which are not supportive which need to be addressed. Recommendations It is recommended that HCWs receive continuous training in order to address the negative attitudes about counselling behaviour for HAST. / Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012