Career Counseling Interviewing: ThemeMapping a Client’s Story

Often, practitioners are reluctant to utilize client narratives due to a lack of training in detailed application concerning story construction and reconstruction and fear of moving into psychotherapy instead of career guidance or counselling (Lengelle & Meijers, 2012; Reid & West, 2011). In this article, wepresent a working process for organizing, mapping, and building viable co-constructions with clients.We offer theming strategies, schemes, and categories that practitioners can use during the career counselling process to help clients in gaining movement in their career trajectories

Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes: Do Teacher Candidates Have These?

Since the late 20th century, the Protean (Hall, 1996) and Boundaryless (Arthur, 1994) career concepts have been posited as explanations for employment transformations in corporate structures. While previous research (Briscoe, Hall, & Fratschy DeMuth, 2006) provides evidence of these constucts with business students, research has lacked in evaluating the Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scale (PBCAS) with other professions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factor structure of the PBCAS with 350 undergraduate teacher candidates and to test the new model with a second sample (n = 194). The results showed moderate support for the validity of the PBCAS with teacher candidates. The data produced a five-factor model similar to the factor structure reported by de Bruin and Buchner (2010). These results support previous findings and indicate the need for further research with the instrument

Counselling toward career adaptability: The charge of a new era

© 2015 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved. In this chapter, I first introduce the need for individuals to possess and develop career adaptability based on the new work paradigm. Within this new paradigm, I posit that stress may be prevalent due to the constant need for individuals to update skills and increase a personal competitive edge to remain employable. Next, I review briefly, the connection between career development and mental health and introduce stress coping as a construct that may help bridge the need to develop career adaptability in career clients. Subsequently, I support this view with a review of the research literature concerning career adaptability including research linking the construct to personality, optimism, proactive behaviors, and positive attitudes

Techniques in career construction counseling

The use of career construction theory is becoming a prominent fixture in the landscape of he new career paradigm. Flexibility, adaptability, and self-constructed career stories are the focus of career counseling in the 21st century. In this chapter, I present a brief review of narrative approaches that include a focus on client story telling as a way to promote career meaning and continuity. I also review some existing interventions from the theory of career construction. Finally, I present a few newer interventions from various mental health therapies that are modified to be helpful in working with career clients from the theory of career construction. © 2013 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved

The life design group: A case study vignette in group career construction counseling

© 2016 NASPA. Providing cost efficient, yet effective, student services, including career services, is a critical component in higher education. Career services must include the perspectives of the 21st-century work place. We advocate for the delivery of career development services in a group format using a narrative approach to career counseling with college students. Using career construction theory, we provide a framework for the Life Design Group and illustrate its use through a case vignette

The Life-Design Group: A Case Study Assessment

© 2016 by the National Career Development Association. All rights reserved. The life-design group (LDG) comprises an intervention designed to aid career specialists in helping groups of individuals work through career problems, transitions, and traumas. In this article, the authors describe the LDG and present case study results for 3 undergraduate students who were struggling with gaining movement in their career trajectories. Results indicated decreases in career uncertainty and indecision and increases in readiness for making academic major and career decisions. Although the LDG originated in a higher education setting, the LDG has application possibilities across the spectrum of career counseling clients

Integrating Lifestyle, the Therapeutic Process, and the Stages of Change

The authors propose a way of integrating the lifestyle concept and the Adlerian phases of therapy as proposed by Dreikurs (1967) with the Transtheoretical Model of change (Prochaska, 1979). Individual Psychology explains early development as a teleological phenomenon that individuals use to organize a lifestyle. The lifestyle can be viewed as a set of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral activities that the individual uses to solve problems in the social milieu. The Transtheoretical Model is a process theory espousing that individuals undergoing change exhibit similar behaviors and cognitive processes over six stages of change. The integration of these two theories provides practitioners with a way to conceptualize the change process that helps to explain the dynamics of relapse and resistance. The authors discuss this conceptual linkage by presenting the effects lifestyle may have on the change process and by demonstrating the overlap of the therapeutic process of Individual Psychology as proposed by Dreikurs and the stages of changesVytauto Didžiojo universiteta

Extending the Narrative Process: Guided Imagery in Career Construction Counseling

© 2018 by the National Career Development Association. All rights reserved. Guided imagery and its use are fairly well documented in the career literature. With the rise of idiographic approaches to career counseling, there is opportunity to reinvigorate and advance the use of guided imagery in career intervention. Toward this aim, the authors present the use of career narrative-generated guided imagery (CGI) in career construction counseling. After reviewing the use of guided imagery in career counseling generally, the authors apply the technique to career construction counseling specifically. Narrative data derived from the career construction interview (Savickas,) allow for the development of 4 distinct scripts that can be applied to career counseling: meaning making, identity, adaptability, and job trial. A case vignette demonstrates the use and efficacy of CGI in career construction counseling

Assessing manifest interests within the career construction interview

© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine narrative responses of participants (n = 83) to the prompts of the career construction interview for manifest interests. We compared our analyzed results of narrative responses to participant Strong Interest Inventory-College Profile results to determine correlational strength. The results indicated a.27 overall correlation between the two assessments, demonstrating that some questions from the career construction interview are more and less effective in assessing manifest interests. Results from this study provide efficacy evidence for the combination of interest inventories and the career construction interview in assessing clients’ manifest interests

Voluntary midlife career change: Integrating the transtheoretical model and the life-span, life-space approach

Frequent career change is the predicted experience of workers in the global economy. Self-initiating career changers are a substantial subset of the total population of career changers. There is currently a dearth of theory and research to help career counselors conceptualize the career change process for the application of appropriate interventions. The authors present an integration of a well-researched behavior change theory, the transtheoretical model of change, with Super\u27s (1990) life-span, life-space approach. The corresponding stages of the 2 models are discussed along with theoretically appropriate interventions. The integrated model provides the basis for future research on the change process for voluntary midlife career changers. © 2011 by the National Career Development Association. All rights reserved