| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 諮商與應用心理學系碩士班 === 102 === The purposes of this study were to explore the practical work experience of school counselors in journior high schools, including (i) Understanding the reasons of school counselors entering the field of work. (ii) Understanding the challenges of coping for school counselors in practical work. And, (iii) Exploring the effectiveness of school counselors to show the professional competence in practical work. This study adopted semi-structured interview as primary data collection and analyzed the transcription from five participants by snowball sampling. The result of the study was divided into three parts as follows.
First, the reasons of school counselors entering the field of work were (i) studying related departments and taking teacher education program in university. Keeping staying in counseling areas all the time, (ii) studying non-related departments in university, however, self-exploration helping to enter counseling areas.
Second, the challenges for school counselors in practical work include (i)Becoming partners with parents. Family is the very important part, if school counselors can cooperate with parents as an ally, it is helpful. (ii) Collaboration with school system. If school counselors cooperate with officials and mentors, it absolutely has an effect. (iii) The formation of working with community organization: How to form a consensus on cooperation with organizations is bound to be emphasized seriously. (iv) Counselors desire for supervision. School counselors look forward to a complete professional supervision system, in order to improve the competence and treatment strategies. (v) Peer group support and self-care is necessary. Peer support and self-care keep their counselling work.
Third, the effectiveness of school counselors to show the professional competence in practical work include (i) To clarify expectation to school counselors’ role through communicating. The expectations to school counselors and role of the situation is unclear in the first year. School’s support counseling boosted considerably in the second year. (ii) Support and trust is the powerful backing. Supervisor's support and trust for the job is a great help. (iii) Dual relationship is inevitable and need to clarify the boundaries and confidentiality. School counseling is bound to encounter multiple roles, and therefore, must clarify boundaries and comply with confidentiality principle. (iv) Looking forward to the effects of clients can extend to the future. Hope the assistance do not limit to this moment, and clients can bring ability learned applying to the future.
The suggestions are as follows. For school counseling: (i) Schools enhance the dropout prevention strategies. Intervention to dropouts is difficult, so how to enhance the protective factors to prevent dropout is very important. (ii) Expand career counseling information. School counselors must be familiar with education pathways in order to provide students with career counseling and career information. (iii) Enhance consultation knowledge. Consulting with parents and mentors can generate expanding effect. (iv) Long-term and stable supervision. The importance of supervision for professional growth is necessary to let authorities know. (v) The ability to cooperate with the system. Adolescent counseling must operate within a system, collaborating within the system is increasingly being valued concept. Suggestions for the future research: (i) For more sophisticated and in-depth discussion on types of clients. For example: dropout student. (ii) The participants may join in client’s parents, mentors, counseling directors etc.
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