PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS ONLINE COUNSELLING AMONG EDUCATIONAL ACTORS FROM SPECIAL SCHOOLS
PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS ONLINE COUNSELLING AMONG EDUCATIONAL ACTORS FROM SPECIAL SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: This paper contains a preliminary study that explores the perception of educational actors (therapists and teachers) from a special school (Prahova County) towards online counselling. Using documents’ analysis, focus group and individualized interview, we have reached to the following important findings: 56% of educational actors do not recognize their counselling needs; 44% of our subjects manifested their will to be counselled and most of them prefer face to face counselling compared with online counselling and moreover, they want to participate to counselling sessions outside school. For most of our subjects (73%) online counselling has more disadvantages and fewer advantages. The results of this study showed that online counselling is a neglected area in special education and the lack of publicity among educational actors has maintained the lack of information and unfavourable mentalities regarding the advantages of this service. So, with this study and our recommendations, we intend to draw attention to the policy makers and education representatives in order to increase the efficiency of online counselling provided to beneficiaries.

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