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Plant, Peter; Haug, Erik Hagaseth – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
The centrality of the users as partners in quality development is highlighted in official documents on career guidance, such as the EU Resolutions on Lifelong Guidance from 2004 and 2008. In addition, increased numbers of scholars in the field of organisational development and public service innovation highlight the importance of user…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Adult Education, Educational Quality, Career Planning
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Rantanen, Antti P.; Soini, Hannu S. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine changes in counsellor trainees' ways of responding to clients' messages after four weeks of Peer Group Consultation (PGC) training [Soini, Jämsä, & Kuusisto, 2006. Scaffolding and consultation of skilled performance. In K. Thompson J. Liukkonen, & T. Jaakkola (Eds.), "Promotion of motor skills…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Peer Groups, Counselor Client Relationship, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Kuittinen, Matti; Meriläinen, Matti; Räty, Hannu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2014
The study set out to explore an array of key competencies required by psychologists, along with a method for assessing them. The respondents (n?=?353) were a representative sample of young Finnish psychologists with professional experience of between 1 and 6 years. They were requested to rate 52 statements of competence. A set of explorative…
Descriptors: Competence, Job Skills, Psychologists, Foreign Countries
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Knuuttila, Vesa; Kuusisto, Katja; Saarnio, Pekka; Nummi, Tapio – Clinical Psychologist, 2012
Background: The study examined the effect of the early working alliance on outcome in outpatient substance abuse treatment. Methods: A total of 327 clients and 33 therapists participated in the study. Data were collected in southern and western Finland in outpatient treatment units (N = 7). The dependent variables were percentage of days abstinent…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Foreign Countries, Counselor Client Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Ruusuvuori, Johanna – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
This paper analyzes "empathy" and "sympathy" as situated practices, sequential processes that are coconstructed by the participants in the situation. The data consists of 228 sequences of patients' descriptions of their problematic experiences and professionals' responses to them in videorecorded general practice and…
Descriptors: Altruism, Patients, Empathy, Video Technology