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>
The Career Construction Interview
Interviews; Role Models; Narratives; Role Models; practitioners; career construction counseling; Therapeutic Processes; career theme; Occupational Guidance; Early Memories; early recollections; Career Construction Interview; current favorite story; motto; Psychotherapeutic Techniques; story-crafting questions; Television; television shows
This chapter describes the framework and elements of the Career Construction Interview during which practitioners ask story-crafting questions, which scaffold career construction. The Career Construction Interview consists of stimulus questions that have evolved over the last 30 years. The career construction counseling discourse theorizes these questions and their sequence. The Career Construction Interview consists of five primary elements of inquiry, each chosen as a gateway to stories about a particular topic. A structured format arranges the five stimulus questions in a sequence that systematically prompts an evocative unfolding of a client's occupational plot and career theme. The stimulus questions, ask about: role models that individuals admired when they were young; television shows they watch regularly; a current favorite story from a book or movie; the saying or motto they like most; and early recollections from around the age of 6. (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/10.1037/0000105-004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-004</a>