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42Chapter 2: Teaching and learning
Chapter 2: Teaching and learning9. WEB COUNSELLING FOR E-TEENAGERSKsenija Lekić, Nuša Konec Juričič, Petra Šafran (Institute of Public Health Celje);Borut Jereb, Ph.D (Faculty of Logistics, University of Maribor), SloveniaThe first question was sent on Saturday 7 April 2001. ‘This is Me’, our web counsellingservice for adolescents had just opened at www.tosemjaz.net. Our first user was a 16-year-old girl who was in love head over heels. We published the answer the next day.And so we successfully started our web-based youth counselling programme. ‘Thisis Me’ is the largest youth counselling web portal in Slovenia, providing teens with afriendly, simple, fast, free, anonymous and efficient public access to expert informationand problem solving advice. Over the last eight years, our experts have answered17,000 questions about dilemmas and problems faced by teens. The programme wascreated by the Institute of Public Health Celje. ‘This is Me’ supports teenagers with theirproblems. The programme focuses on development of positive mental health, with anemphasis on self-image, social and life skills. The programme responds to their needsand makes efficient use of web technology.Web space as everyday supportYou’re right, nobody can do anything that matters instead of you and all crucial decisions,even those on life and death, are yours alone. Yet the everyday becomes a bit easier and nicerif we help each other as fellow beings, friends, experts - as people. Tell us more about yourselfand I promise to respond. You will still have to choose a path and pull yourself through.Maybe someone can lend you a helping hand - if you, of course, accept it. (Excerpt from ananswer to a troubled teen, www.tosemjaz.net).Results and characteristics of the e counselling service:•• Our network of web counsellors includes 33 experts: 12 medical specialists,12 psychologists, 9 social workers. All our counsellors are volunteers from 12different institutions•• Over 2,500 answered questions and more than 100,000 users wereregistered in one year•• Every day we carefully edit e content and manage e contacts betweenexperts and teens•• On average, the answers are published within three days•• Most users are between ages of 13 and 18•• The e counselling service is further augmented through preventive selfimage development workshops in schools•• The programme is funded by the Institute of Public Health Celje withsupport from the Ministry of Health•• The programme has won five national and international awards43
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Vilnius resolution: better schools
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