Distance Counseling in Greenland

Challenges combined with practical Experiences

National Student Counseling in Greenland

National Student Counseling in Greenland

National Student Counseling in Greenland

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Stable connection

Unstable connection

OFFLINE vs. ONLINEWI-FI stability map of Greenland

National Student Counseling in Greenland

11. September 2008

National Student Counseling in Greenland

Greenland ConnectedNorth Greenland?? NOT

Challenges in distance counselling in Greenland

National Student Counseling in Greenland

• Education in 18 cities and small settlements. 13 of these are placed outside our district offices.

• Great geographical proliferation between cities and settlements • Wide target group with multi-sectorial areas: state,

statedepartments, municipality.

• Unstable internet-connection. Delayed sound and picture in the northern part of the country.

• Challenges in internal ressources - Employees – different experiences. - Lack of equipment – hardware og software in the counselling

offices.- Economics? The cost?

Continued…

National Student Counseling in Greenland

• Challenges in external ressources- Many schools do not have hardware and proper internetconnection- Many have not arranged a private place for the students to sit. - Economics- Some students sit in the principals office when having online counseling/-therapy.

• In some parts of the country almost a half of the students do not own a computer.

• It is still an unanswered question of who is going to pay for what.

Telefonrådgivning svært at se kropssproget. Svært Lav

THEN WHAT!?

National Student Counseling in Greenland

• Meeting with the headgroup of the Department of education and association of municipalities/local authorities

A new discovery! A new experience!

National Student Counseling in Greenland

Interdisciplinary possibilities across the counseling offices

Different skills can be spread across the five counseling offices

Students have therapy across the country – with the psychologist in SIsimiut, the interpreter in Ilulissat and the student in Maniitsoq.

Lowering cost on traveling

Inhability – a wide problem, which does not have to be a problem – any longer…

Double counseling two counselers: one in Ilulissat, one in Nuuk and the student in Upernavik

Web counseling is actually more stable than satelite-calls!

Thank you! Qujanaq!

National Student Counseling in Greenland