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Developing New Counseling Standards: Workshop Document from SAACDHE Conference

This workshop document outlines principles and boundaries for establishing new counseling standards, focusing on building faculty partnerships in Botswana. It discusses institutional and counseling challenges, benefits of collaborative relationships, roles and outcomes, planning and strengthening partnerships, theoretical frameworks, referral processes, and the way forward.

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Developing New Counseling Standards: Workshop Document from SAACDHE Conference

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  1. PRINCIPLES AND BOUNDARIES: Developing a new counselling standard • Workshop discussion document • Botswana • SAACDHE Conference: September 2009 • Presenters: R Connelly & D de la Harpe

  2. Outline • Introduction • Role clarification & workshop outcomes • Group introductions • Group discussion: existing institutional context • Presentation: theoretical framework • Group discussion: new strategies / models for building faculty partnerships * Revisiting support networks • Evaluation

  3. Introduction INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE: Admission & Retention COUNSELLING CHALLENGE: The potential to become involved is too often constrained by…

  4. Partnerships RETENTION

  5. Why are these collaborative relationships important? BENEFITS FOR FACULTY: attracting and retaining the most able and highly committed students to their programs. BENEFITS FOR COUNSELLORS: Collaboration provides avenues for our services to be more deeply embedded in the academic culture

  6. Roles & Outcomes • Roles • Interactive: Facilitative / consultative / participatory vs prescriptive / teaching • Outcomes • Provide a workspace for counselling staff to reflect on and plan for new strategies in engaging with academic staff. • To facilitate an exchange and cross-pollination of ideas to empower and equip.

  7. Who are we? • INTRODUCE YOUR GROUP • Institution name? • How many counsellors do you have (overall)? • How many faculties have you got (overall)?

  8. Group discussion: existing institutional context PLANNING PARTNERSHIPS • Describe inhibiting factors • STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS • Describe existing partnerships • How were these formed • With whom? • How are they maintained? • What works well (strategies) • What hasn’t worked / challenges

  9. Theoretical framework

  10. NMMU example: evolving strategy

  11. Summary of referral process Faculty Referrals Warned Excluded LEC assessment Individual feedback / mgmt plan Recommendation to faculty (Excl) Follow up monitoring sessions / ROADMAP KEYS / Qualitative assessment informed by tracking retention / progress

  12. Broadening of the referral process Faculty Bursary holders Referrals (GM / Financial Aid) Warned Excluded Developmental reactive / remedial / preventative … proactive LEC assessment Challenges

  13. Broadening of the referral process Faculty Bursary holders Referrals (GM / Financial Aid) Early Identification Warned Excluded Developmental proactive reactive / remedial / preventative … proactive LEC assessment Challenges

  14. Broadening of the referral process Faculty Bursary holders Referrals (GM / Financial Aid) Early Identification Warned Excluded Developmental proactive reactive / remedial / preventative … proactive

  15. Description of specific sampleTracking career paths

  16. Expanding support network: an NMMU example

  17. The way forward

  18. Group discussion: the way forward • Strategies • Building / implementing partnerships with academic stakeholders

  19. THANK YOU!

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