Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour
validity; barriers; self-efficacy; adaptability; continuity; vocational identity; career construction theory; life-design; career adaptability; adapt-abilities scale; adolescent career development; career construction counselling; exploration behavior; Identity; supports
The efficacy of a three-week career construction counselling group intervention that was structured using the My Career Story workbook [Savickas, M. L., & Hartung, P. J. (2012). My career story: An autobiographical workbook for life-career success.] was examined using a pre/post-test design. The group intervention was delivered within an urban high school largely comprising African American, Puerto Rican and Dominican students across two semesters. Both groups completed two pre/post-test measures of vocational identity and a career adaptability measure. Results indicated that the career construction intervention increased scores on measures of vocational identity and control and con?dence dimensions of career adaptability. Implications for career intervention with adolescents of colour and for future research are discussed.
Cadaret MC; Hartung PJ
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
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Drawing on the Innovative Moments Model to Explain and Foster Career Construction Counselling
Psychology; Life design; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Career construction counselling; Career research; Career Skills; Client change; Counselling and Interpersonal Skills; Innovative moments; Narrative change
Career Construction Counselling (CCC) is a narrative intervention that supports individuals in the elaboration of narrative identity and career construction. CCC theory, research, and practice has benefited from the Innovative Moments Model (IMM) to explain client change. Similar to CCC, the IMM is grounded on a narrative conception of human functioning, in which psychological difficulties arise from problematic self-narratives that constrain meaning-making. Change occurs when clients challenge problematic self-narratives and construct new meanings that lead to new ways of behaving, thinking, or feeling. These novelties are termed innovative moments. The integration of IMM into the study of CCC has provided empirical evidence about the processes of client change throughout this intervention. Findings show that the transformation of a client’s self-narrative is associated with the aims of each session that involve a movement from a focus on structuring the past to an increased engagement in projecting the future. Moreover, results suggest the possibility of using IMs as process markers to guide counsellors in facilitating client change during counselling sessions. This chapter explains the contribution of IMM to CCC theory, research, and practice; describes the IM framework; reviews CCC process research using the IMM; and finally discusses research implications for CCC theory and practice are discussed.
Paulo Cardoso; Miguel M Gonçalves; Savickas Mark L
Handbook Of Innovative Career Counselling
2019
1905-7
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_29" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_29</a>