Design and Implementation of Career Counselling System

Career counselling is a most effective aspect of life, it can make one's career or can break it, which eventually leads to a break in life. With the advent of a Covid-19 pandemic, students are not able to choose their career according to worth so guidance/counselling is most imp. This software allows students, passing from the school, to stay in touch and get personal assistance on choosing their colleges and career with the help of seniors or pass-out students. Using this new system, not only the students would be able to differentiate between the pros and cons of different colleges, but they will also be able to get mentorship in a familiar and localized manner. The application will be helpful, informative, and beneficial for a vast majority of students and has the potential of easing student’s lives in diverse ways with the help of their seniors.

Understanding guidance counselling needs of adults with dyslexia through the lens of a critical-recognitive social justice perspective and a biopsychosocial model of disability

This article draws on the findings from a qualitatively-led sequential mixed methods doctorate study which was located within the Irish Adult Educational Guidance Services (AEGS) and focused on the guidance counselling needs of adults with dyslexia. Honneth's (2003) conceptions of recognition, equality and social justice, and the interactionist and non-reductionist biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability (WHO 2011) provided an opportunity to examine and interpret the findings as matters of social justice. The wider application of Honneth's theory and the BPS model to career counselling practice are also considered.

Creativity: A key concept in guidance and career counselling

Creativity can be considered a key resource in human development, education and adaptation. It is often defined as the ability to generate novel productions (ideas or work) that are valuable in their context and are also frequently surprising. In the context of the 21st century skills movement, creativity is systematically cited as a life skill, together with critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills. In this article, we explore the role of creativity in vocational guidance and suggest how it may be further integrated into discussions of career counselling. The article first offers a collection of perspectives from the French guidance counselling literature, educational guidance and training perspectives. This material illustrates the pivotally important modern expansion of the field’s mission from helping students making career choices to that of providing individuals of all kinds with the skills and perspective necessary to begin the lifelong process of building their own ‘life project’. In this expanded vision of career counselling, we argue that the understanding and development of an individuals’ creativity becomes even more centrally important.

A Study to See Effects of Psychological Counselling On Intelligence of Secondary Level Students

To know the effects of counselling on intelligence on young children 200 students of Aklank and Modi Public School of Kota (Rajasthan) were taken for study. Dr. P.N. Mehrotra’s mixed type group test of intelligence was implied. It measures verbal and non-verbal intelligence and also indicates about the areas of intelligence where the child needs guidance / counselling for improvement. Thus after scoring and analysis the data obtained, could be said that there was no significant difference in the Intelligence Quotient of both the groups in both class IX and class X testing of both experimental and controlled group. There was no difference in the I.Q. of the experimental group after two counselling interventions, establishes and confirm the theory and thought that the Intelligence is a hereditary factor which cannot be influenced by any external interventions.

How do clinicians prepare family members for the role of surrogate decision-maker?

PurposeAlthough surrogate decision-making (SDM) is prevalent in intensive care units (ICUs) and concerns with decision quality are well documented, little is known about how clinicians help family members understand the surrogate role. We investigated whether and how clinicians provide normative guidance to families regarding how to function as a surrogate.Subjects and methodsWe audiorecorded and transcribed 73 ICU family conferences in which clinicians anticipated discussing goals of care for incapacitated patients at high risk of death. We developed and applied a coding framework to identify normative statements by clinicians regarding what considerations should guide surrogates’ decisions, including whether clinicians explained one or more of Buchanan and Brock’s three standard principles of SDM to family members.ResultsClinicians made at least one statement about how to perform the surrogate role in 24 (34%) conferences (mean of 0.83 statements per conference (1.77; range 0–9)). We observed three general types of normative guidance provided to surrogates, with some conferences containing more than one type of guidance: counselling about one or more standard principles of SDM (24% of conferences); counselling surrogates to make decisions centred on the patient as a person, without specifying how to accomplish that (14% of conferences); and counselling surrogates to make decisions based on the family’s values (8% of conferences).ConclusionsClinicians did not provide normative guidance about the surrogate role in two-thirds of family conferences for incapacitated patients at high risk for death. When they did, clinicians’ guidance was often incomplete and sometimes conflicted with standard principles of SDM. Future work is needed to understand whether providing explicit guidance on how to perform the surrogate role improves decision-making or mitigates surrogates’ psychological distress.