Telephone Counseling for Home-Based Adults. Final Report.

Autor/inn/en	Arbeiter, Solomon; und weitere
Institution	Policy Studies in Education, New York, NY.; College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY.
Titel	Telephone Counseling for Home-Based Adults. Final Report.
Quelle	(1978), (71 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Programs; Career Guidance; Counseling Effectiveness; Counseling Objectives; Counseling Services; Followup Studies; Guidance Objectives; Home Programs; Hotlines (Public); Information Needs; Models; Postsecondary Education; School Counseling; Success; Rhode Island + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsorientierung; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; Analogiemodell; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; School counselling; Pädagogische Beratung; Erfolg
Abstract	A follow-up study was conducted to discover the effect of the Career Education Project (CEP) on its clients and to discover perceptions held by former clients regarding their need for career guidance and counseling services. (CEP, a model program funded by the National Institute of Education, offered telephone counseling to home-based adults in Providence, Rhode Island.) Designed as an outcomes assessment, this study involved interviewing 400 randomly chosen clients from the 1,157 who were counseled between April, 1974, and March, 1975. It was found that the clients were predominantly (1) female, white, high school graduates, between twenty and thirty-four years of age, married, with one or two children at home, and with family incomes between $5,000 and $15,000; (2) unemployed although experienced in the labor market; (3) seeking career counseling for the first time; (4) satisfied with the service they received and with the telephone as a medium of communication (although most preferred face-to-face interaction); (5) most helped by counseling in the areas of self-exploration, goal setting, and career decision making; and (6) action-oriented, as they sought further education or jobs. CEP was considered a remarkable success as most clients were found to be currently employed, earning higher salaries, and more self-confident than before counseling. (The report also includes possible explanations for the project's success and extrapolates the successfulness of similar projects with other types of clients.) (ELG)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC