Career counseling, 2nd ed
Goals; Interviews; Narratives; Models; Intention; Intention; Models; Life designing; career construction counseling; identity narrative; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Guidance; reflexivity; Self-Concept; career themes; Early Memories; early recollections; assessment goals; narrative psychology; Career Construction Interview; career counseling practitioners
This book describes methods of career construction counseling based on the conceptual model of life designing. It defines counseling and how career counseling has evolved over the last century. The counseling profession has evolved three distinct conceptual models to direct how they conduct career counseling: guiding, developing, and constructing. The book is organized into nine chapters. Chapter one presents a brief overview of the book. Chapter two examines the core concepts of self, identity, meaning, mastery, and mattering. Chapter three explains how practitioners use narrative psychology to help clients revise their career stories to increase comprehension, coherence, and continuity. Chapter four describes the framework and elements of the Career Construction Interview during which practitioners ask story-crafting questions, which scaffold career construction. Chapter five presents the assessment goals that concentrate on extracting client preoccupations and problems from the early recollections that sustain them. Chapter six describes how to identify client solutions to the problems they pose in their early recollections. Chapter seven discusses how to use career themes or central tensions to extend clients' occupational plots by identifying fitting settings, possible scripts, and future scenarios. The final two chapters concentrate on using the assessment results in career construction counseling. The penultimate chapter describes how career counseling practitioners compose an identity narrative that reconstructs clients' small stories into a large story that encourages reflexivity to clarify choices. The final chapter explains the importance of turning intention to action in the real world, first through exploration and trial, then through deciding and doing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
2019
1905-07
Book
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-000" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-000</a>
Constructing self and identity
Professional Identity; Narratives; identity; self; Career Development; career theme; Self-Concept; Occupations; narrative identity; career story; careers; character arc; Employee Attitudes; Employee Characteristics; mastery; mattering; narrative paradigm; objective dimension; self-construction; subjective dimension
This chapter examines the core concepts of self, identity, meaning, mastery, and mattering. It begins by discussing the role that language plays in constructing a self and then differentiates 'self' from 'identity.' The chapter explains how identity is expressed in narratives, depicting narrative identity as a story that an individual tells about one's self in some social role or context. It also explains that career may be thought of as a story that a person tells about his or her work life. A career story usually has two main dimensions: objective dimension and subjective dimension. The chapter describes how the career theme includes the character arc that tells the status of an individual's primary motivation as it unfolds over time. It concludes by proposing a narrative paradigm for organizing and understanding career stories by concentrating on how the character arc moves from passive suffering to active mastery. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
1905-7
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-002</a>
Narrative counseling
Professional Identity; Communication; career construction counseling; Narrative Therapy; Therapeutic Processes; Storytelling; Career Development; Occupational Guidance; Self-Concept; Career Change; career stories; career transition; narrative identity; narrative psychology; Narrative Therapy
This chapter explains how practitioners use narrative psychology to help clients revise their career stories to increase comprehension, coherence, and continuity. Narrative therapy is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of approaches to counseling. The diverse approaches share the belief that client stories are central to identity and identity change. Practitioners of career construction counseling use narrative psychology to help clients unfold their stories, so that in the end the stories can enfold their uncertainty and quell their apprehension. Constructionist counseling rests on a relationship in which a career transition is coconstructed through narration. Stories serve as the construction tools for building narrative identity and highlighting career themes in complex social interactions. Career construction counseling has two major dimensions: relationship and communication. The relationship dimension refers to processes of engagement, interaction, and encouragement. The communication dimension refers to the structure of story elicitation and the content of the stories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
1905-7
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-003" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-003</a>
Career construction assessment
Goals; Interviews; Narratives; practitioners; career construction counseling; career theme; identity narrative; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Guidance; Self-Concept; assessment goals; Career Construction Interview
After completing a Career Construction Interview and before beginning counseling with clients, practitioners must understand the meaning presented in clients' stories, relate this meaning to the initial reason they sought counseling, and prepare to retell clients' stories in a manner that draws a sharp character sketch, highlights the career theme, and envisions scenarios that extend the occupational plot. If more than one session is possible, then the tasks of interviewing and counseling may be divided. Typically, practitioners spend the first session eliciting clients' career constructions with the Career Construction Interview, the second session narrating to the client a reconstructed story and beginning to coconstruct a reconceptualized identity narrative, and the third and final session completing counseling and terminating the consultation. This chapter presents the assessment goals that concentrate on extracting client preoccupations and problems from the early recollections that sustain them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
2019
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-000" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-000</a>
Assessment of solutions
Role Models; Role Models; practitioners; Self-Concept; client solutions; Early Memories; early recollections; first career choice; Occupational Choice; Self-Concept; self-construction
This chapter describes how to identify client solutions to the problems they pose in their early recollections. With a client's perspective and preoccupations in mind, practitioners begin to consider responses to the question about role models. Models are selected because they portray tentative solutions to the client's predicament in life. How clients describe their role models reveals core elements in their own self-concepts. The systematic reconstruction of a client's 'self' in the life portrait encourages clients to substantiate their self-concepts and highlight their characteristics. To investigate how a person conceptualizes the self, practitioners look to the models as blueprints used by clients early in the process of self-construction. From this perspective, practitioners view role models as the first career choice. When inquiring about role models, it is best to elicit three models because a client's self and self-concept are a complex amalgam of influences and identifications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
1905-07
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-006" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-006</a>
Counseling for career construction
Life Experiences; Narratives; career construction; identity narrative; Occupational Guidance; life portrait; lifetime experiences; reflexivity; Self-Concept
This chapter describes how practitioners compose an identity narrative that reconstructs clients' small stories into a large story that encourages reflexivity to clarify choices. Having conducted the eight-step assessment protocol, practitioners prepare to compose a portrait that depicts a lifetime of experiences from a new perspective on career. Practitioners draw a life portrait that transforms little stories into a grand narrative that expresses identity and provides a superordinate view that comprehends the current transition and envisions future positions. To compose a life portrait, the practitioner reconstructs the client's micronarratives into a first draft of a macronarrative and then eventually coconstructs with him or her a final version authored and authorized by the client. The chapter presents the general principles for life writing and discusses the sequence of topics in the Career Construction Interview that foreshadows the large story. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Savickas Mark L
Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.
2019
1905-07
Book Section
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1037/0000105-008" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-008</a>
The Student Career Construction Inventory
adaptability; adaptability; Adaptation; Adapting; Adaptivity; Career choice; Career construction; exploration; fit indexes; form; maturity; measurement invariance; Psychology; Self-concept; validation
To address counselors' need for a reliable measure of career adapting thoughts and behaviors as well as researchers' need for a specific measure of adapting as a dimension in the model of career adaptation, we developed the Student Career Construction Inventory (SCCI). In the study, 486 high school students (55% female), 290 college students (59% female), and 220 graduate students (82% female) responded to the SCCI. The SCCI contains 18 items across four scales assessing: (a) Crystallizing a vocational self-concept, (b) Exploring to gather information about occupations, (c) Deciding to commit to an occupational choice, and (d) Preparing to implement that choice. The four scales interrelate to constitute a continuum reflecting the general factor of adapting responses during the exploration stage of a career. Each scale assesses a specific group factor reflecting a particular career construction task involving crystallizing, exploring, deciding, and preparing. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the SCCI displays configural and measurement invariance, meaning that its factor structure is replicable and generalizable across high school, college, and graduate students. The SCCI did not show scalar invariance because, as expected, the mean scores for the scales were elevated for older and more educated participants. The SCCI, as a measure of adapting responses, correlated as predicted with concurrent measures of three criteria: adaptive readiness, adaptability resources, and adaptation results. A provisional test of the career construction adaptation model indicated that, as hypothesized, adapting behaviors mediate the relationship between adaptability resources and adaptation outcomes.
Savickas M L; Porfeli E J; Hilton T L; Savickas S
Journal of Vocational Behavior
2018
2018-06
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.01.009" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.jvb.2018.01.009</a>