Vol 9 No 3 (2025): Support in Education and Personal Development Across Educational Levels: Between Individual Needs and Systemic Responsibility

Volume 9, Issue 3 (2025) was devoted to the issue of supporting the individual in education as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon permeating all levels of the educational system as well as various domains of personal and academic development. The contributions interconnect the historical context of the emergence of counselling structures with current empirical findings on the functioning of school and university counselling services, reflect psychological factors influencing academic achievement, and emphasise the importance of systematically embedded support directly within teaching and learning processes. The authors address topics such as the historical development of educational and psychological counselling, the transformation of university counselling services and their evolving role in response to the increasing psychological burden experienced by students, the significance of academic self-efficacy among students with psychological difficulties or chronic illnesses, and the promotion of health literacy and preventive attitudes among adolescents and young adults. Attention is also given to specific didactic interventions, including the integration of support-oriented courses into higher education curricula and the use of mobile technologies to foster reading literacy in the early stages of schooling. The issue thus conceptualises educational support not merely as a response to difficulties, but as a systematic and continuous process aimed at strengthening competences, autonomy, and the wellbeing of pupils and students within a changing educational environment.