Βασικές αρχές επαγγελματικής συμβουλευτικής: Διαδικασίες και τεχνικές

Το εγχειρίδιο αυτό αποτελεί την ελληνική έκδοση του “Essential Elements of Career Counseling, Processes and Techniques” των Norman Amundson, JoAnn Harris – Bowlsbey, Spencer G. Niles, (Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall, Colombus Ohio, second Edition 2008). Μεταφράστηκε και εκδόθηκε από το Εθνικό Κέντρο Επαγγελματικού Προσανατολισμού (ΕΚΕΠ) στο πλαίσιο του ρόλου του ως ο εθνικός φορέας συντονισμού, υποστήριξης και ενδυνάμωσης της δράσης των Λειτουργών Συμβουλευτικής και Επαγγελματικού Προσανατολισμού στην εκπαίδευση, την κατάρτιση και την απασχόληση. Το βιβλίο διαπραγματεύεται βασικά ζητήματα τα οποία διαχειρίζονται οι σύμβουλοι σταδιοδρομίας κατά τη διάρκεια της συμβουλευτικής διαδικασίας. Ως στόχο έχει να προσφέρει τη δυνατότητα σε κάθε σύμβουλο να αποκτήσει μία ολοκληρωμένη εικόνα για τις μεθόδους και τεχνικές που μπορούν να αξιοποιηθούν στο πλαίσιο της επαγγελματικής συμβουλευτικής, σε ατομικό ή ομαδικό επίπεδο. Παρουσιάζονται επίσης βασικές θεωρίες επαγγελματικής συμβουλευτικής, με έμφαση στην πρακτική αξιοποίησή τους, η οποία αναδεικνύεται μέσω αντιπροσωπευτικών μελετών περίπτωσης. Το ΕΚΕΠ διαθέτει το παρόν εγχειρίδιο σε στελέχη και φορείς που υλοποιούν δράσεις Συμβουλευτικής και Επαγγελματικού Προσανατολισμού, ευελπιστώντας ότι θα αποτελέσει ένα ουσιαστικό βοήθημα στο έργο τους και θα συμβάλλει στην ποιοτική αναβάθμιση των υπηρεσιών Επαγγελματικού Προσανατολισμού

Education Deans: Challenges and Stress

Abstract: This study explored issues facing deans within higher education, specifically deans of doctoral granting schools/colleges of education. The study explored key challenges/issues and related stress education deans experience at research universities

Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: Using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students' perspectives on 'internationalisation at home'

This paper addresses the question of interaction between home and international students using qualitative data from 100 home students at two 'teaching intensive' universities in the southwest of England. Stephan and Stephan's Integrated Threat Theory is used to analyse the data, finding evidence for all four types of threat that they predict when outgroups interact. It is found that home students perceive threats to their academic success and group identity from the presence of international students on the campus and in the classroom. These are linked to anxieties around 'mindful' forms of interaction and a taboo around the discussion of difference, leading to a 'passive xenophobia' for the majority. The paper concludes that Integrated Threat Theory is a useful tool in critiquing the 'internationalisation at home' agenda, making suggestions for policies and practices that may alleviate perceived threats, thereby improving the quality and outcomes of intercultural interaction. © 2010 British Educational Research Association

Hope-Action Theory and Practice

Hope-Action Theory presents a theoretical structure that holds Hope as the center point of career development. Associated with hope are competencies such as self-reflection, self-clarity, visioning, goal setting and planning, implementation, and adapting. There also are environmental factors that influence the entire career development process. In order to assess the practical utility of Hope-Action Theory a series of intervention research studies were initiated in different contexts. This article reviews the results from these studies. The first one applied specific active interventions with a group of internationally trained health professionals. The second study involved unemployed clients using a series of face-to-face and online interventions. The third group focused on the needs of refugees and was set up with a control and experimental groups using a two week group delivery approach. Positive results from all of these studies supports the utility of Hope-Action Theory and the set of active interventions that were used in this research

Elemen-Elemen Penting Dalam Konseling Karier Berbagai Proses dan Teknik

xiv, 301 hlm,; ill,; 23 c

Hydrologic and Landscape Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Western North American Arctic Lakes

Northern high-latitude lakes are hotspots for cycling dissolved organic carbon (DOC) inputs from allochthonous sources to the atmosphere. However, the spatial distribution of lake dissolved organic matter (DOM) is largely unknown across Arctic-boreal regions with respect to the surrounding landscape. We expand on regional studies of northern high-latitude DOM composition by integrating DOC concentrations, optical properties, and molecular-level characterization from lakes spanning the Canadian Taiga to the Alaskan Tundra. Lakes were sampled during the summer from July to early September to capture the growing season. DOM became more optically processed and molecular-level aromaticity increased northward across the Canadian Shield to the southern Arctic and from interior Alaska to the Tundra, suggesting relatively greater DOM incorporation from allochthonous sources. Using water isotopes (δ18O-H2O), we report a weak overall trend of increasing DOC and decreasing aromaticity in lakes that were hydrologically isolated from the landscape and enriched in δ18O-H2O, while within-region trends were stronger and varied depending on the landscape. Finally, DOC correlated weakly with chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) across the study sites, suggesting that autochthonous and photobleached DOM were a major component of the DOC in these regions; however, some of the northernmost and wetland-dominated lakes followed pan-Arctic riverine DOC-CDOM relationships, indicating strong contributions from allochthonous inputs. As many lakes across the North American Arctic are experiencing changes in temperature and precipitation, we expect the proportions of allochthonous and autochthonous DOM to respond with aquatic optical browning with greater landscape connectivity and more internally produced DOM in hydrologically isolated lakes

Recombinational Repair Is Critical for Survival of Escherichia coli Exposed to Nitric Oxide

Nitric oxide (NO(⋅)) is critical to numerous biological processes, including signal transduction and macrophage-mediated immunity. In this study, we have explored the biological effects of NO(⋅)-induced DNA damage on Escherichia coli. The relative importance of base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair (NER), and recombinational repair in preventing NO(⋅)-induced toxicity was determined. E. coli strains lacking either NER or DNA glycosylases (including those that repair alkylation damage [alkA tag strain], oxidative damage [fpg nei nth strain], and deaminated cytosine [ung strain]) showed essentially wild-type levels of NO(⋅) resistance. However, apyrimidinic/apurinic (AP) endonuclease-deficient cells (xth nfo strain) were very sensitive to killing by NO(⋅), which indicates that normal processing of abasic sites is critical for defense against NO(⋅). In addition, recA mutant cells were exquisitely sensitive to NO(⋅)-induced killing. Both SOS-deficient (lexA3) and Holliday junction resolvase-deficient (ruvC) cells were very sensitive to NO(⋅), indicating that both SOS and recombinational repair play important roles in defense against NO(⋅). Furthermore, strains specifically lacking double-strand end repair (recBCD strains) were very sensitive to NO(⋅), which suggests that NO(⋅) exposure leads to the formation of double-strand ends. One consequence of these double-strand ends is that NO(⋅) induces homologous recombination at a genetically engineered substrate. Taken together, it is now clear that, in addition to the known point mutagenic effects of NO(⋅), it is also important to consider recombination events among the spectrum of genetic changes that NO(⋅) can induce. Furthermore, the importance of recombinational repair for cellular survival of NO(⋅) exposure reveals a potential susceptibility factor for invading microbes