Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Συμβουλευτική, Επαγγελματικός Προσανατολισμός και Διά Βίου ΜάθησηLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Gialesaki Kalliopi
Supervisors info:
Χρήστος Παρθένης, αναπληρωτής καθηγητής, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Αικατερίνη Αργυροπούλου, αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Φωτεινή Καλογερογιάννη, Διδάκτωρ, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Η επάρκεια του συμβούλου σε πολυπολιτισμικά περιβάλλοντα
Translated title:
The multicultural counseling competence
Summary:
The continue movements of population over the world, either due to global economic crisis or an ongoing war in their homeland, have create the need of making an intercultural community, which would be able to support and integrate harmoniously and equally them. Career counselors which are increasingly being called in our country, consists one of the parts of intercultural community’s development. The reason is why they bridge the distance among people of different cultural backgrounds. The aim of this study is to examine the ability of career counselors to cope with people’s needs from other cultures in process of counseling. Concretely, the focus is on examining multicultural counselors’ ability, multicultural counselors’ skills, knowledge about multicultural issues and their punditry, knowledge about barriers in multicultural counseling, counselor’s cultural awareness and multicultural terminology.
In this study 71 participants are selected, work as career counselors both in the public and private sector. They were invited to submit a questionnaire online. Results indicate that the overall of participants have multicultural counseling competence decently, except of some answers which designate insufficiency of some of them. Moreover, this study indicated the relation between multicultural dimensions, while the one’s increasing has increasingly influence to the others too.
Main subject category:
Philosophy - Psychology
Keywords:
multicultural counseling competencies, multicultural and intercultural identity, intercultural communication
