BET-Ue25

Project lead:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Höft
Prof. Dr. Matthias Rübner

Project participants:
Astrid Kickum (M.A.) 
Dr. Istvan Kiss        
Swen Sieben (M.A.)     

The BET concept for employees over 25 years old (Ue25) was developed within the BET-Ue25 project.

Aims of the study:
The BET-Ue25 project aim is to identify positive effects and design features in various counselling settings. A multi-dimensional process to record counselling-induced change processes in counselling settings at the National Employment Agency was developed and implemented. On top of this, approaches to the further development of counselling quality are to be drawn up with particular consideration of counselling process factors.

The pilot study is made up of two parts; a field study and tool validation:    
The first part included a feasability check of the planned design of the main study as well as a comparison of the expected effects of the field of application, as reported by those involved, with the findings documented in academic literature.

The second part comprises the development of a mutli-dimensional process prototype to assess the status of individuals seeking advice in the (re)orientation process, which was used to record counselling-induced change processes in different counselling settings

Clients' self-assessments were combined with parallel external assessments using method triangulation by integration specialists and non-participating observers in order to verify the validity of the BET procedure. In addition, the study was designed as a longitudinal study with three measurement points (pre-post-post) in order to record the short and medium-term effects of counselling. A special feature of the study was the use of a mixed methods approach, in which both quantitative data from the longitudinal survey and qualitative data on the content of the conversations and forms of intervention in the counselling sessions were analysed and correlated.