FOCUS GROUPS MAIN THREADS

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• FOCUS GROUPS MAIN THREADS

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Parents main threads

• Parents do not know what is the job of the career
  counsellor
• Parents feel that they are not to much qualified
  to help their children
• Parents have communication problems with children
• Parents have lack of information about education,
  labour market, trainings
• Parents do dot know how to asses childrens
  possibilities
• Parents do not know how to select information
• Parents do not know how to talk with children in
  different age
• Parents have doubts connected with peer and
  environment influence on the child
• Parents fears about the future
• Parents fears toward the counsellor (stranger)
• Parents prejudices and stereotypes
• Parents own vocational dreams duplication by
  parents a family career scheme
• Parents formulate only the nearest aims
• Sometimes parents prefer to meet with the
  counsellor without children
• Parents need statistics as a proof
• Real life examples
• Unexceptional professions

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Counsellors main threads

• Parents prefer to solve family problems at home
  their are afraid to loos the good parent image
• Parents do not prevent problems they try to
  solve them when problems appear
• Counsellor as a facilitator not directive,
  respectful, do not giving recipes
• Counsellor as a negotiator, mediator
• Sometimes is useful to organize common -
  parentschildren meetings
• Parents want quick solution of the problem lack
  of time
• Parents need information about the child, school,
  vocations
• Parents need personality and ability tests
• Counsellor should know developmental problems
• Parent sometimes are not tolerant towards their
  children
• Planning the career useful topic
• Parent have their own emotional problems
• Shifting the parents responsibility onto the
  school
• Parents lack of motivation
• How to advertise career counselling?
• Counsellors should present tolerance
• Counsellors need to be aware of their competence