O potrzebie zmiany w kształceniu przyszłych doradców

The paper demonstrates preliminary conclusions of the research conducted with participation of the students of the University of Zielona Góra in the second half of the school term in 2012. The research concerned mutual cooperation between the counselors themselves as well as the clients’ perception of their services and professional roles. The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of counsellors to their work. The author was interested in what the counsellors are doing, how they perform the duties imposed on them and also if the counsellors are aware of these aims. The researcher was interested in finding by the counsellors the difficulties in their work and the ways they developed to cope with them. The study consisted in gathering the counsellors’ opinions from two provinces of Poland, Lubuskie and Lower Silesia. The consultants were employed in different institutions like, for example, student and adult career centers, counselling facilities and schools. Altogether there were 37 people. The counsellors were asked about what their day job is and what exactly they do, what they know about the effects of their work, who they work with and why, what is difficult for them, how they cope with difficulties at work. The author’s comments on the research and conclusions are based on his professional experience in a special career counselling and guidance cooperation working team in the Lubuskie Province. The author intended to limit himself to two issues only, and these are: cooperation and integration of counsellors and their responding to their clients’ needs. He describes unsatisfactory state in this regard. In the final part the author formulates the thesis for changes in the way the education of counsellors and social work students is conducted, which in his opinion would facilitate the realization of their future professional practice tasks.