Orientation, Counseling and Workplace Mediation for people with disabilities

Orientation and Counseling: vocational orientation and counseling means any information and/or professional support offered to a person regarding:

- choosing a profession

- progress in a profession

- adapting to a profession that changes

- changing the profession or 

- any other issues related to a profession

Vocational orientation and counseling consists of 3 types of services:

1. Vocational orientation: implies providing information related to:

- identifying the client's need for information

- giving information about the employment market (on professions, terms of exertion, pay and promotion, conditions imposed by employers, the dynamics of professions)

- giving information about the person that applies for support (psychological profile, professional interests)

- identifying strong points as basic elements for determining the professional path

2. Counseling and psychological assessment

Counseling is the confidential way of providing support to people in crisis situations

The psychological assessment is for the beneficiary's psychological profile, to provide the integration environment suitable for his psychological structure. It implies a special form of communication, a relationship between 2 people: - the counselor and the client- that is unique each time:

- identifying the client's issues
- determining the steps that have to be taken 

3. Professional counseling is based on the personal development principle and implies encouraging independence and increasing the beneficiary’s motivation so that he participates actively in solving his personal issues and taking responsibility for making some decisions about his carrier. Professional counseling consists in:

- choosing the profession

- employment or professional forming

- defining the objectives and goals

- the professional balance sheet of the person that is counseled

- the individual action plan based on the results of individual talks and tests

- organizing practical applications for assimilating the techniques and instruments for searching and getting a job:

creating a C.V., a cover letter, a thank you letter, going to an interview

- monitoring and assessment of each client throughout the whole process of orientation and professional counseling