Attending to Clients' Psychological Needs During Career Construction Counseling
career construction counseling; career counseling process; counseling tasks; needs; problem formulation
Attending to clients' psychological needs during career counseling merits more attention in career theory and practice. We describe how the elaboration of clients' needs during career construction counseling supports clients' problem formulation. After reviewing the literature on the psychology of needs, we present and illustrate an intervention strategy with a case example. Counseling vignettes from the initial counseling task of problem formulation illustrate how to facilitate clients' narrative symbolization of their emotional experiences and associated needs. We explain how this strategy contributes to deepening clients' understanding of their problems and facilitates both the rewriting of a career narrative and the construction of new career plans. Analysis of the possibilities and limits of this practice merits attention in career counseling process research.
Sampaio C; Cardoso P; Rossier J; Savickas ML
Career Development Quarterly
2021
2021-06
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Life designing: A paradigm for career construction in the 21st century
adaptability; boundaryless; Career construction; Life design; Narrative therapy; Psychology
At the beginning of the 21st century, a new social arrangement of work poses a series of questions and challenges to scholars who aim to help people develop their working lives. Given the globalization of career counseling, we decided to address these issues and then to formulate potentially innovative responses in an international forum. We used this approach to avoid the difficulties of creating models and methods in one country and then trying to export them to other countries where they would be adapted for use. This article presents the initial outcome of this collaboration, a counseling model and methods. The life-designing model for career intervention endorses five presuppositions about people and their work lives: contextual possibilities, dynamic processes, non-linear progression, multiple perspectives, and personal patterns. Thinking from these five presuppositions, we have crafted a contextualized model based on the epistemology of social constructionism. particularly recognizing that an individual's knowledge and identity are the product of social interaction and that meaning is co-constructed through discourse. The life-design framework for counseling implements the theories of self-constructing [Guichard, J. (2005). Life-long self-construction. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 5, 111-124] and career construction [Savickas, M. L. (2005). The theory and practice of career construction. In S. D. Brown & R. W. Lent (Eds.), Career development and counselling: putting theory and research to work (pp. 42-70). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley] that describe vocational behavior and its development. Thus, the framework is structured to be life-long, holistic, contextual, and preventive. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Savickas M L; Nota L; Rossier J; Dauwalder J P; Duarte M E; Guichard J; Soresi S; Van Esbroeck R; van Vianen A E M
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2009
2009-12
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2009.04.004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jvb.2009.04.004</a>