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Cases of domestic violence are increasing every year. Women are particularly affected by this. Germany ratified the "Istanbul Convention" on violence against women and domestic violence in 2017 and has committed itself to a broad fight against violence against women. This also includes further training for professional groups who come into contact with victims and perpetrators of violence. As general practitioners (GPs) are often the first point of contact, they should be aware of red flags for domestic violence. Addressing their own suspicions requires good communication with those affected, their environment, and within the team. GPs provide the victim with all the necessary information and carry out legally admissible documentation. The victim themselves sets the direction and also the pace. It is helpful to develop a clear procedure for the GP practice that the entire team is familiar with. The only sensible prevention is to work with perpetrators and people who are concerned about becoming perpetrators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Living on Benefits: Between helplessness and the fight for self-efficacy. The role of individualpsychological short-term counselling On the one hand, the article examines hypotheses about the impairment of self-esteem by unemployment from the perspective of individual psychology. On the other hand, it deals with the relationship between counselor and client under the special challenge of only short-term counselling settings. This is complemented by several practical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the importance of counseling in the run-up to and in the context of the service provision process of integration assistance for the genesis of needs in the overall plan process for children and adolescents with disabilities is examined. It is argued that counseling as the first step in the comprehensive plan procedure makes an essential contribution to the discovery of needs, the participation of beneficiaries in the procedure and is thus constitutive for person-centered and inclusion-oriented assistance and support arrangements in the comprehensive plan procedure, which are interrelated in a way that still needs to be examined in more detail. The systematic consideration of counseling as the first step in the overall planning process seems particularly significant because normatively charged terms such as participation (in the UN CRPD, the English term »participation« is used) take on central importance for the needs assessment and in the overall and participation planning. The special situation of children and adolescents with disabilities is highlighted in this article, as clear challenges become apparent in the procedures for overall planning in SGB IX as well as for assistance planning in SGB VIII. Based on the experiences of a research and development project on the overall planning and needs assessment for children and adolescents with disabilities, the aim of this contribution is therefore to elaborate fundamental questions about the importance of counseling in the run-up to and in the context of the service provision process in integration assistance in general and for the planning of assistance for and with children and adolescents in particular. This article thus addresses the question of the importance of counseling before and during the provision of services and to what extent it can contribute to overcoming central challenges, such as the participatory design of procedures, the possibilities of articulating needs, and the understanding of assistance and support services. Finally, the findings are discussed and research gaps identified, the results of which will guide a planned research and development project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For pupils who seek advice regarding personal problems, hotlines offer easily accessible counselling. But howcompetent are employees of such helplines?Do they provide real help? In the current empirical-quantitative study this question is pursued and employees of helplines are compared with other occupational groups who counsel (teachers, psychologists, social workers) as well as a sample of laypeople. Employees of helplines show the highest counselling competence. Laypeople and teachers perform worst without showing significant differences with regard to their knowledge about counselling. Practical implications are discussed, in particular concerning teacher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since counseling has become a professional form of intervention, a special repertoire of methods and tools seems essential for the process but is challenging as counselors persist in unilateral perspectives which is excluding an openness towards understanding the clients experiences. This article documents the trial of transfering a research tool (phenomenological vignettes) actually applied in school education research to a councelor-client-setting. Therefore the intersubjective happenigs are not only contextualized in phenomenology, a philosophical movement. The researcher and counselor guided by this phenomenological methodology step by step turns it to an explorationdesign specifically created for counselling processes. Thus in a few counseling sessions the counselor makes – beyond the known methdocial counselling repertoire – use of an experiential research attitude and shapes vignettes about experiences with the client. To get a polyperspectival viewpoint on these experiences the researcher and two other recipients of the vignettes deepen their interpretation in form of vignettereadings (Vignettenlektüren). Concluding the article reflects possibilities, challenges and limitations of using vignette research to widen the perspective in counseling processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When counselling adolescents, empathy and age-appropriate information on medical confidentiality are important. Addressing individual needs and wishes enables the targeted use of the necessary information and resources and is the best guarantee for successful contraception over time. The goal is to make informed decisions and to have a positive experience of successfully protected sexual and reproductive health. The range of suitable contraceptive options is very broad. To make the most of this potential, all methods should be addressed with their advantages and disadvantages, including information on sexually transmitted infections and protection against them. Concerns and questions should be answered comprehensively and openly, and the experiences with sexuality described should be approached without prejudice. Often this is also an opportunity to talk about experienced situations of sexual assault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The task of counselling as an identity support space is called and the history of this form of › ego identity ‹ is summarized in keywords and requirements that result from this construct in a postmodern society are named. In the second step, authors and models of intersubjectivity are referred to in keywords in order to present thoughts and aspects of a concept of the holistic field. The consequences resulting from this idea of the holistic field are reflected on the basis of two cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the connection of nature experiences, nature relationship and identity development in the context of counseling. Thereby, a localization of the concepts of nature and nature-based/nature-sensitive work takes place on the basis of two case studies. By including concepts of selected authors, connections between nature and identity development as well as connections with transactional analytic ways of thinking are shown. The social task of psychosocial counseling against the background of the existing environmental problems is also considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is fundamental confusion and notable omissions within counselling and psychotherapy's adoption of diversity principles. This prevents the profession from achieving its aims of more respectful and efficacious clinical practice with certain populations. The article argues that uncritical over-reliance on ideas from outside the profession has resulted in a failure to appraise which groups might require specific attention. Unacknowledged confusion between celebratory and critical approaches to diversity is also identified as a source of practical muddle. Putatively radical assertions about understanding minority group experience are shown to actually exclude valuable ways of understanding social disadvantage, which might better enhance our understanding and efficacy. The article concludes by suggesting that the multiple difficulties within the profession's embrace of diversity can be understood in terms of a refusal to reconsider the theoretical, economic and organisational foundations of our therapeutic work to which questions of diversity pose a serious challenge. A case is made for a more open discussion of the relevant issues accompanied by a call for revised professional organization to support knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Das Sexocorporel-Modell sexueller Gesundheit betrachtet menschliche Sexualität als einen lebenslangen Lernprozess, der mit der sexuellen Entwicklung des Kindes beginnt. An diesem Prozess sind vier Ebenen von Kompetenzen beteiligt: kognitive, körperliche, wahrnehmungsbezogene und beziehungsbezogene Fähigkeiten. Diese Kompetenzen hängen von persönlichen und sozialen Faktoren ab und können im Laufe der Zeit erweitert werden. Das Modell trägt dazu bei, das Thema Transidentität auf eine Art und Weise zu betrachten, die die persönliche Bedeutung und Erfahrung der Trans*-Person respektiert, anstatt gesellschaftliche Klischees oder Etiketten zu verwenden. Das Modell hilft auch dabei, die individuellen Kompetenzen der trans*-Person in verschiedenen Lernbereichen zu verstehen und sie bei der Erforschung ihres eigenen sexuellen Systems und dessen Logik zu unterstützen. Die trans*-Person kann sich dann dafür entscheiden, ihre Wahrnehmungsund/oder Konstruktionsidentität weiterzuentwickeln, wenn sie dies wünscht. Von fachlicher Seite muss eine differenzierte Einordnung der kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen für die sexuelle Entwicklung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen, sowie die kulturelle Einbettung des Themas Transidentität im Blickfeld behalten werden. Die Begleitung der Klient*innen erfolgt individuell und personenzentriert. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Models of counselling and psychotherapy indicated for diagnoses of depression include brief, goal-oriented interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and are favoured by state funded mental health services. Whilst effective in addressing low mood these modalities provide little scope to consider the effect of structural and social inequalities that contribute to the known determinants of poor mental health, which have been exacerbated as a result of Covid-19. Using a fictional case study, this article seeks to explore the impact of oppressive, gendered, societal discourse on Simone's mental wellbeing during the Covid-19 outbreak. Using Narrative Therapy Principles, this article considers how Simone might use this therapeutic framework to reframe and re-author her experience, asking the question 'what's happened to me?' instead of 'what's wrong with me?' With the psychosocial legacy of Covid-19 predicted to be far reaching, opportunities exist for providers of counselling and psychotherapy to review the availability of therapeutic modalities that acknowledge the role and impact of social inequality and oppression on the lives of our clients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The commentary recurs to the contributions of the present issue and contextualizes them with fundamental developments in recent educational research. Their legitimacy is beyond question, but is complicated by the problem of defining the subject matter. For this in the context of the contributions solutions are discussed. Furthermore, current theoretical approaches are discussed, but also deficits, especially in the field of empirical reception research. It is assumed that these are also theoretically conditioned. Against this background, the pedagogical and the educational science as well as the terms education and counseling are discussed. As a result, a case is made for a systematic combination of primarily text-based guide research with empirical reception research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I discuss the question, how guidebooks can be characterized as a specific format of addressing adults educationally. Three possible classifications are considered: media-based imparting of knowledge, counseling and popularization of science. At the example of companions dealing with issues of climate change, it can be shown, that the format guidebook can imply different ways of structuring adult learning and dealing with knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the reference interview with the target group of primary school children as well as their characteristics in respect to the language development and the reading competence. Besides the inventory and the endowment various competences of librarians are needed to successfully perform a reference interview. These were identified with the KODE® KompetenzAtlas2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: Digital teaching formats have seen increased use, and not just since the beginning of the pandemic. They can also be used to teach cognitive, practical and communicative learning objectives effectively. We describe the implementation of an online-only course on alcohol/smoking counselling in the COVID-19 summer semester (SS) 2020 and an inverted classroom (IC) concept in the winter semester (WS) 2020/21 at the University Hospital of Würzburg. Methodology: The interdisciplinary subject of "prevention" teaches students about high-risk alcohol consumption/smoking and how to conduct a brief verbal intervention. All 143 (SS) and 131 (WS) 6th-semester medical students completed a 90-minute course: module 1 included a Prezi® presentation on alcohol/smoking basics. Module 2 introduced a counselling concept (alcohol or smoking) online or classroom-based (WS only), depending on the participants' choice. In the online practical component, each student created a counselling video and reflections at home, and later received written feedback from lecturers/tutors. Supervised role-playing was used in the classroom-based format in the WS. There were 2 exam questions on module 1 at the end of each semester. Results: The students surveyed (11%) were satisfied with module 1. Practical exercises and feedback received praise in the evaluation of the classroom-based format (response: 97%). It was not possible for all students to perform counselling due to time constraints. A majority of participants filmed live role-playing in the online practical component. The exam questions were answered correctly by 31% (SS) and 36% (WS) respectively. Conclusions: Counselling can also be taught digitally: creating one's own videos with delayed written feedback is an innovative form of teaching. We are now aiming for a mix of both aspects as an IC with 90 minutes of classroom-based practical exercises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this overview, the existing research on swearing, cussing, and cursing over the last six decades is surveyed in the context of mental health therapy and counselling-related pursuits. Swearing is a subject of longstanding controversy, dating back to the days in which prominent figures of the psychotherapeutic tradition like Albert Ellis and Fritz Perls affirmed profane language in their counselling interviews. Although profanity is seemingly taken for granted as a categorically taboo subject matter in present-day counselling, the notion that swearing might add value to counselling remains underrepresented in the literature. Presented here are studies both supporting and contradicting the generally accepted standards for counselor use of profanity in clinical practice, illustrating the context-laden aspects of the importance of language. This article represents a platform that could act to further academic inquiry in the context of swearing in therapy on the part of therapists in framing, staking out, and subsequently showing their own position on whether swearing is simply wrong or that there is a 'right way' to use it. Ultimately the focus of this article is on an introduction to a much deeper problematic of language in therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Training programmes for counsellors and psychotherapists comprise complex combinations of different types of learning activity. However, research into the process and outcomes of therapy training has almost entirely comprised investigations of specific training elements. In addition, studies of training have not taken account of the potential influence of the social and organisational context within which training is delivered. The present paper reports on a realist analysis of learning mechanisms within a professional counsellor training programme in pluralistic-integrative counselling, drawing on multiple sources of data collected over a ten-year period. Training outcomes were oriented toward preparing trainees to be flexible and resourceful practitioners in non-medicalised community settings. Core learning mechanisms included building on pre-existing skills, knowledge and awareness, and acquiring conceptual tools appropriate to a collaborative style of working, within an immersive learning environment that supported focused reflection and engagement with personally challenging learning tasks. Implications for further research on therapist training, and programme design, are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a training institute for counseling and supervision we have to compete in a highly competitive market. Therefore it is important to know what interested parties are looking for, further more to relate to scientific requirements, and also to have in mind the spirit of the time, which means to transfer Individual Psychology into present. This article illuminates this training, its topicality and players. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assessing the economics of small-scale farm forestry (SSFF) is associated with typical challenges. There is a large number of economically small or even very tiny although quite diverse institutional units with hardly any standards in terms of bookkeeping. At the same time, there is a multiplicity of more or less interrelated on-farm activities, forestry being only one kind-of-activity within the institutional unit. In North as well as in South Tyrol farm forestry is investigated in terms of full cost accounting applied to small and purposively chosen sub-samples of the respective national Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). These forest accountancy networks (FANs) allow eliciting the contribution of forestry to family income. Additional data collected and analyzed for this purpose enables us to quantify the significance of forestry for the Total Economy of Farm (TEoF). Full cost accounting for all on-farm activities, as performed in South Tyrol, is advocated as a starting point for investigating interrelationships between the kind-of-activity-units within one institutional unit and ultimately for optimizing the portfolio of the individual farm in regard to income and resilience. Respective insight is not only of scientific interest but may provide also valuable references for extension services and can help to improve sector statistics, where the major part of farm forestry is doomed to be regarded as inseparable non-agricultural activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychotherapy supervision research, while reflecting empirical advances across the decades, also reflects unfulfilled promise. We subsequently consider why that is so, examining some of the roadblocks that seemingly have prevented supervision research from moving most fruitfully forward. It is our contention that rich seeds of supervision research advancement have long been available, cast in the form of constructive recommendations for action that, unfortunately, have generally gone unheeded and not been acted upon. In hopes of further stimulating supervision research and a re-study of those useful recommendations, we review long-lingering supervision roadblocks, remedies, and recommendations for remedy implementation. Several fundamental issues — focusing on study design, sampling, and measurement concerns — are taken up for consideration. Supervision research, because of its triadic nature, can be highly challenging, difficult to conduct, even 'messy'. But if supervision is to ever empirically advance beyond its current state, then re-visiting and acting upon some of those earlier-identified, admittedly-demanding recommendations seems sine qua non. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Young children of color—especially boys—are at disproportionate risk for suspension and expulsion from early care and education settings. Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) is an approach associated with lower than expected expulsion rates, but the mechanisms through which it may influence preschool expulsion are unknown. This paper reflects on the parallels between IECMHC and interventions created to reduce implicit bias. Based on interviews with leaders in IECMHC practice, implementation, and evaluation, a theoretical framework was created to articulate how IECMHC is hypothesized to affect expulsion by first reducing the influence of implicit bias on disciplinary decisions. Implications for practice and research are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Universities themselves are in an institutional transition. The increasing variety and diversity of student transitional situations is only one of the challenges that characterize this transition. Based on these preconditions, the article examines the questions of the potential that transitions bring for the personality development of students, how universities use these in their role as personality formers, and how individual counseling formats can support the competence and personality development of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse mehrerer Interviews zur Organisation rechtlicher Aspekte des FDM dar. Die Interviews ergaben das Ergebnis, dass rechtliche Fragestellungen zum FDM wichtiger Bestandteil der Beratungsangebote sind. Als Organisationsstruktur bietet sich das Modell des First-Level-Supports an. Dadurch lässt sich die bibliothekarische mit der technischen und rechtlichen Expertise verbinden. Anders als in der bisherigen Praxis sollte die Hochschule jedoch mit klaren Arbeitsanweisungen oder Tätigkeitsbeschreibungen für die Beratungsleistungen ihrer Mitarbeiter einstehen. Our contribution sums up the results of numerous interviews concerning the organisation of legal aspects of research data management. Findings show that legal questions regarding research data management figure prominently in counselling services. From the point of view of organisational structure the model of first-level support seems most useful, as it adequately combines library expertise with technical and legal expertise. In contrast to what has gone before, however, higher education institutions must carry responsibility for the counselling services of their employees by specifying clear statements of work and precise job descriptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effective patient-doctor communication is a crucial aspect while caring for children with chronic conditions or disabilities. The Health, Functioning and Wellbeing Summary Traffic Light has been developed as a communication tool especially for these patients. In a two-month pilot phase the German version was evaluated by parents and physicians in a rehabilitation out-patient clinic setting. 71 % (n = 35/49) returned the evaluation form. The traffic-light tool was rated positive by 80 % of participants and physicians. It can be recommended as a useful tool for improved communication. The simple language version as well as translations into other languages and the use of a mobile App will facilitate its use. Its use is not limited to paediatrics and could be adapted for other disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to fast-paced cultural and societal changes in Turkey, Turkish students now accrue both eastern and western cultural motives, which place Turkish students under stress. However, Turkish students have a stigma toward seeking mental health services. The current study aimed to use conjoint analysis to examine Turkish students' preferences for mental health therapist variables regarding seeking help for adjustment problems to life in college. Students from two universities in Turkey were recruited on a volunteer basis to participate in this study (N = 235). The results indicated that the training institution, age, professional background, geographical region and gender significantly influence students' formation of preferences for mental health therapists. The training institution had the most predominant effect on preferences. Implications for promoting help-seeking and mental health service utilization in Turkey are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) is a European Union agency based in Dublin, Ireland. As a European information service provider, Eurofound provides research results, data, information and knowledge on living and working conditions in the European Union in order to further develop employment and social policy strategies at European level. The aim is to contribute to the improvement of living and working conditions in Europe. This article provides an overview of the services, working methods and intended impact logic of this European information providing agency, as well as an overview of the similarities and differences in the working methods of other comparable EU agencies and how they contribute to and cooperate with the EU policy-relevant provision of scientific information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives/research question: Especially during infancy, many children suffer from persistent sleep difficulties that can have severe consequences for the child as well as for the parents. Numerous guidebooks are available that offer advice on how parents should handle this problem, but little is known about the content or authors of these books. The objective of this study was to perform an in-depth content analysis of select guidebooks and provide recommendations. Materials and methods: First, we searched amazon.de using the keywords 'parents' and 'sleep'. Of about 1800 hits, we chose those guidebooks that were available and could be ordered. We included only those about the sleep of healthy babies and infants and those addressing parents. Of the 31 books meeting these criteria, six were chosen for an in-depth analysis of the reasoning and scientific background. The authors provide a critical evaluation of each guidebook. Results: In terms of reasoning, we found two groups. While some authors recommend bedsharing, which means the parents and child sleep together in one bed, others support R. Ferber's method of graduated extinction. There are also differences with respect to the scientific background. Some give detailed information such as addresses of counselors, some lack references or quote only outdated sources, while others give no further information. Consequently, the authors of this study evaluated the analyzed books differently. We recommend only one of the books, advise against two of them and judge the remaining three books as neutral. Discussion: Taken together, we found differences between the guidebooks in terms of both content and quality. Therefore, we recommend strict standards for such guidebooks to guarantee an overall acceptable quality and protect parents against non-scientific interventions. One possibility for future research may be to investigate how parents use the guidebooks. Nothing is known about consumer behavior with respect to implementing the given advice. Against this background, one could argue that better information exchange between scientists and guidebook authors is necessary and would be helpful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT This article proposes a method of volunteering mental health consultation to child caregivers in developing countries in the context of episodic visits and a long-term relationship. It is derived from the author's experience doing this work for approximately 12 years. The two foundational features of the method-the role of a consultant and a long-term relationship-are described. The method is then elaborated in two settings: consultation to caregivers in an orphanage in Central America and at a hospital in India. While these examples are distinct in multiple domains, they have in common the core features of the consultative model and a long-term relationship. Finally, the article briefly addresses challenges that the consultant experiences when working with neglected and traumatized children and the usefulness of reflective practice. It is hoped that an articulation of this method may make it possible for many who might wish to volunteer to do so, in a way that neither interferes significantly with their work and family life at home nor creates the problems of 'helicopter volunteering.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mindfulness-based interventions such as the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme are increasingly applied to enhancing patients' stress management and problem solving skills, and to preventing and treating mental disorders. However, its generalisability to psychosocial counseling remains uncertain. The aim was to examine whether an abbreviated MBSR-based mindfulness stress-reductiontraining (MST) provided in a counseling context has a positive impact on mindfulness, quality of life, stress and depressive symptoms. The psychosocial counseling centre at the TU Chemnitz conducted a randomised-controlled pilot study (N = 28), comparing MST (6 weekly sessions at 2 hours) with a waiting-list control group before, after and 3 months after treatment. MST-participants displayed a higher quality of life, fewer dysfunctional and more functional stress management strategies and fewer depressive symptoms than control participants. The potential of MST could be realized successfully in a short, cost-effective version of the MBSR programme and achieve a positive impact on stress management, quality of life and depression. Providing MST in the context of treatment or (psychosocial) counseling may address shortages in health service provision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Performing vaccine and travel consultations is a crucial aspect of the daily routine in general medicine. However, medical education does not provide adequately and structured training for this future task of medical students. While existing courses mainly focus on theoretical aspects, we developed a course aiming to foster practical experience in performingvaccine and travel consultations. Project report: The course was implemented in the simulation clinic at the University of Munich in the summer 2011 semester using role-plays in a simulation-based learning environment. The course represents different disciplines involved in vaccine and travel medicine. Students' learning is supported through active engagement in planning and conducting consultations of patients. Discussion and Summary: The course was implemented successfully and students' acceptance was high. However, there is a need for structured teachingof theoretical basics in vaccine and travel medicine earlier in medical curriculum. The insights gained through our course are used for the development of the structured longitudinal curriculum "vaccine medicine". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last 20 years, there has been an increased interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) across a range of disciplines. This approach to research focuses on the empowerment of those for whom the research is relevant by ensuring that they or their representatives have the opportunity for full involvement in developing and undertaking studies, and in disseminating the research findings. However, there is little evidence within counselling and psychotherapy of a substantial engagement with research that includes clients, potential clients and their communities as full partners in the research process. This paper describes CBPR and critically explores its potential for developing knowledge in counselling and psychotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Life is constitutional characterized by the mutual interaction between individual and environment. Nevertheless for explanation of successful or unsuccessful life organization, scientific disciplines tend to put the individual and its psychological functions, traits and behavior patterns or the social structures and conditions into focus in a one-sided way. The adequate comprehension of this coincidence demands a connection of social and human sciences on basic of a transactional, i.e. an ecologic-systematical understanding of science and practice. The paper focuses the process of the individual-environment-interaction as a frame for explaining successful life and the production of life quality and health. From that it derives a conceptual frame for a transactional and reflexively designed counseling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the question in what way and with what possibilities and limitations reflexive forms of counselling can be realized in contexts like the public employment services that are characterized by coercion. 'Reflexive counselling' is a form of social action, through which subjects produce a space of counselling through face-to-face communication. This space enables reflection with the help of dialogue and the conscious reference back to earlier actions. The subject regains or maintains its capacity to act. Based on an observed counselling interview conditions and factors for practical realization of reflexivity are analyzed in the job placement process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the question of the meaning of reflexive counseling in a society of reflexivemodernization. It does so by examining theoretical findings in sociology and reflexive social psychology for a diagnosis of times of reflexive modernization. Systems theory and systemic-constructivist pedagogy provide definitions concerning the constructs of reflexivity and reflection. In this connection, the practical area of counseling and especially of counseling in continuing adult education is illuminated. Finally, the results of the theoretical analysis are complemented by the point of view of continuing education practitioners. This is accomplished by introducing initial results of a study which reconstructs reflexivity and reflection in a grounded manner from the statements of practitioners of adult education with an emphasis on counseling. The article reveals that counseling has an important supportive function in a society that is increasingly characterized by individualization and uncertainty, and that reflexivity and reflection are crucial conditions for learning and change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Das Thema akademische Integrität hat in den vergangenen Jahren durch die Plagiatsaffären von Personen des öffentlichen Lebens eine hohe gesellschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit erlangt. Wurden die damit einhergehenden wissenschaftsethischen Fragestellungen durch den Fokus auf akademisches Fehlverhalten bislang jedoch vornehmlich unter negativen Vorzeichen diskutiert, ist das Thema aus Sicht des Gutenberg Lehrkolleg (GLK) eng mit den Werten und Regeln guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis verbunden. Eine auf die Bedürfnisse der Studierenden abgestimmte Begleitung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten durch das Lehrpersonal wird als zentraler Ansatz zur Prävention von Plagiaten auf Studierendenseite betrachtet. Vor diesem Hintergrund äußert sich Dörte Andres, Sprecherin des GLK-Leitungsgremiums und Universitätsprofessorin für Dolmetschwissenschaft am Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (JGU), u. a. zu den Fragen, auf welche Weise bei Studierenden ein Bewusstsein für akademisches Fehlverhalten geschaffen werden kann und welchen Einfluss eine bedarfsgerechte Begleitung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten hierauf hat bzw. haben kann. Abschließend werden Maßnahmen des GLK, welche darauf zielen, akademischem Fehlverhalten entgegenzuwirken und gute wissenschaftliche Praxis zu fördern, vorgestellt. The Gutenberg Teaching Council (GTC) is one of Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz's key academic bodies. Following the same aim as its equivalent in the field of research, the Gutenberg Research College (GRC), its purpose is to implement JGU's mission statement and teaching strategy, giving equal priority to teaching and research and the promotion of excellence in these fields. The GTC advances teaching and academic teaching skills at JGU in many different ways. Moreover, it plays a strategic role within the university, contributing to the further development of the university's course structures and learning environment. Different working groups within the GTC focus on modern-day relevant issues in university teaching. Their task consists in e. g. providing recommendations for the teaching staff and students or drawing up position papers on the further strategic development of teaching at JGU. Several plagiarism affairs in recent years involving public figures have resulted in a heightened public awareness of academic integrity. They have also given rise to much debate in academic circles, (temporarily) culminating in the revelations made in the Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg case. So far, the main focus of public debate has been on academic misconduct and the negative aspects of research ethics associated with it. The GTC firmly believes in placing the main emphasis on the values and rules of good research ethics. Providing support and mentoring, tailored to the needs of students writing academic papers, is the way forward to prevent plagiarism among students. Against this backdrop, Dörte Andres, spokeswoman of the GTC's executive committee and university professor for interpreting studies at Mainz Universities Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, discusses the following questions: How can a heightened awareness of academic misconduct be created among students? What are the potential benefits of providing mentoring services in academic work? To conclude, measures of the GTC to counteract academic misconduct and encourage academic integrity will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent advances in cancer therapy have resulted in an increased number of long-term cancer survivors. Infertility, however, might be the consequence of an efficient cancer treatment. For young patients affected by cancer accesses to the partly established and partly still experimental options to preserve fertility are crucial. As decisions on fertility preservation have to be made in the short time period after diagnosis and before onset of cancer treatment, counselling is challenging. Based on an overview on technical options to preserve fertility, the ethical dilemma will be discussed and the nowadays available study results concerning the psychological dimension and the requirements for counselling will be presented. Due to the complexity of the topic a multidisciplinary approach considering experts' recommendations is indispensable [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Participation in personal therapy during training is required by British accreditation bodies for counselling psychology as well as by most psychotherapy trainings. By contrast, trainee clinical psychologists are not required to undertake personal therapy, although they may elect to. Prior research in Britain and the US suggests that practitioners have a wide range of motives for entering therapy as well as motives for not doing so (Norcross & Connor, 2005). This study addresses the fact that no research to date has specifically explored what individuals beginning their counselling psychology, clinical psychology and counselling training think and feel about participation in personal therapy during training. Data from open-ended questionnaires was analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Two main themes were identified. These consisted of: 'Personal therapy helps me to be a better practitioner', and 'Personal therapy costs me'. The study results are considered in light of the limited prior research and recommendations for training are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the application and development of the work discussion method within educational settings. In the first section of the paper, I outline some key contextual factors that are important to consider when setting up work discussion groups within schools. A number of case examples are then described, illustrating a range of central issues that can emerge. By developing a deeper understanding about the meaning of behaviour and the emotional factors that impact on teaching and learning, I hope to demonstrate how work discussion groups can help teachers to develop their capacity to manage the challenges of their work, role and relationships with pupils. More broadly, I hope to illustrate how these groups can help to promote a learning environment for all, in which development and growth is promoted at a personal, professional and whole school level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes how an application of psychodynamic principles and techniques in a school setting can open up perspectives and insights into aspects of loss and mourning, which result in the personal and professional growth of individuals. It discusses applied psychoanalytic work in relation to its clinical base in the consulting room, in particular family work, and exemplifies this with a variety of cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes a type of intervention with parents that attempts to stimulate and encourage empathic imagination in relation to their child's difficult behaviour. Some barriers to this process are explored in the context of wider cultural influences, particularly as they pertain to the USA. Basic cultural assumptions about children, their emotional life and development, are contrasted to basic assumptions in British Object Relations Theory. Examples of parent consultations are offered and theoretical reference points are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In academic libraries, advice and professional support are important parts of everyday working life. In order to meet the changing, often very complex information needs of our heterogeneous target groups and to take advantage of new opportunities for the dissemination of information, the library of the Medical Faculty Mannheim (MedMA-Bib) has adapted and expanded its consultation services in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]