Counselling of immigrant students in schools – the development of shared understanding between advisers and students

ABSTRACT Careers advisers in schools are of great importance. In order for the counselling to be effective, a social capital-intensive relationship must be built up between adviser and student, characterised by trust and shared understanding of roles and expectations. The aim of this quantitative study is to investigate the influence of a student’s immigration status on the judgement of counselling by both adviser and student as well as its influence on the concordance between these judgements and on the development of this concordance over time. The results show that in general the judgement of counselling by both advisers and students was positive. However, there was a lower level of concordance between advisers and first-generation students than between advisers and native students.