Counselling and Careers
Counselling and career advice is readily available from the staff and Student Services Team. The College has a team of professionally qualified counsellors who can assist with personal and family counselling issues and also provide career guidance and information. Parents are encouraged to be a part of career guidance interviews whenever possible or desired.
Nudgee College's Counsellors provide guidance in the following areas:
Educational Matters
- Motivation and goals
- Learning styles
- Study habits and skills
- Time management
- Revision and achievement
- Exam techniques
- Advocacy
- Behaviour management
- Parenting skills
Personal Issues
- Family concerns
- Peer pressures and conflicts
- Grief and loss
- Self-esteem
- Relationships
- Coping strategies
- Stress and relaxation
- Interagency and community links
Career Direction
- Interests, abilities and life work goals
- Career choice influences
- Occupational and work ideas
- Pathways
- Decision making
- Action plans
- Education and training options
Student Services Department
The Student Services Department assists with the counselling needs of the students of the College and, where appropriate, with the needs of parents and staff. This ranges across areas of personal counselling, career counselling, mediation and advocacy.
Issues such as motivation for study and study habits, relationships with peers, parents and teachers, self-esteem, and bullying are typical matters students might approach a counsellor about for assistance.
The counsellors perform the role of School Contact Officers in accordance with the Province Child Protection Policy and are points of contact for students and staff when addressing issues of discrimination and harassment.
The Student Services Team is a resource team to enable students to make good decisions for their lives and futures, a team which works collaboratively with student formation and the teaching, learning and training arms of the College.
Career Counselling
Career counselling is a significant part of the service. Students (and parents) can approach counsellors for up-to-date information on career paths and possibilities, and the education and training required.
Helping students choose appropriate subjects is an important element in this process and in the development of SET Plans for students from Year 10 on. Counsellors assist students interested in school-based apprenticeships and traineeships to understand the processes involved and what they can achieve, and can assist the students with how to move into such arrangements.
Counsellors can also assist in the provision of information to potential employers of students in school-based training arrangements.