Counsellors' professional and personal perspectives on working and living in a remote northern community
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research presents findings from interviews with three counsellors dealing with issues related to counselling in a Canadian remote northern community. Five areas were explored through 15 open-ended questions pertaining to confidentiality, privacy and anonymity, dual relationships, isolation, professional development and resources. Results show how counsellors' responses are grounded in professional and personal ethics, are creating boundaries as vital to well-being and self-care. Responses reflect a need for opportunities for professional development as essential though lacking, and a need in sharing resources verbally and tangibly as a necessity. This study revealed a distinction between the hub community where the study was conducted and the outlying communities. Future considerations are discussed including: inviting counsellors working in remote locations to the table when ethical principles are being revised, conducting additional research in remote communities, fostering a higher standard of professional development opportunities, (including video and tele-conferencing for educational seminars) and promoting professional consultation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".