Good Practices of Didactical Methods Database

Title: "Counseling of Counseling” Learning Video
Good Practice Mission: International students may face obstacles regarding their communication in their host country. Sometimes, cultural habits communication hinders successful communication between internationals and locals. This short method should motivate the students to think about positive dialogues and aspects that made them successful to create a good communicational setting in the classroom.
Specific goals of the GP:

Enhance the communication in an international classroom, reflect on own obstacles when communicating in an international setting, setting up a pleasant classroom setting.
Year: 2021
Duration of the implementation: Minutes
Target group: N/A
Summary:

A group of second-year Bachelor students in social work at the FHJ has created this video, which explains “how to do counselling” in the German language (with subtitles both in English and German available) for the target groups of social work students (bachelor-level), practitioners and professionals in social work.

The video, which lasts approximately 20 minutes, comprises the process of preparing, implementing, and reflecting on a successful counselling approach and counselling conversation in social work.

The case study provided is the counselling process or one-on-one consultation of a student who wants to emancipate herself from her parents’ expectations regarding choosing a particular profession. Social work literature supporting this particular counselling approach is available and referred to (theoretical approach of Dr Peter Pantucek-Eisenbacher).

Context of creation and diversity dimension: people with (learning) disabilities

The video has been created in the context of the Academic Peer Counselor Curriculum, which has been presented in the WP2.1 GPC of the Diverse Course project. One expert of the respective Academic Peer Counselor Curriculum, Daniela Sprenger, instructed one group of students to produce the respective video. The process was supported by course instructor Esther Brossmann-Handler as well. Thus, the “counseling of counseling” video was intended to be particularly useful for people with disabilities, including learning disabilities, who learn counseling skills as a profession, in order to professionally act as peers to people with (learning) disabilities as well.

Transferability:

The approach can be extended to a target group of any people who are interested in social work and similar counseling processes and are motivated to acquire skills in counseling.
Space requisites:

Separated tables for small discussion groups.
Obstacles revealed?:

Differences in communication vary from country to country.
Methodology used: Group/collaborative learning
Resources needed:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1mO6_nneNo
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