Innovative Moments in Career Construction Counseling: Proposal for an Integrative Model
ambivalence; career construction counseling; career counseling process; CIVILIAN Conservation Corps (U.S.); client change; counseling tasks; COUNSELOR & client; innovative moments; therapy; VOCATIONAL guidance
October 2019 Update
This article advances understanding of career construction counseling (CCC) by viewing it through the lens of the innovative moments model (IMM) of how clients construct change. The IMM conceives clients' narrative transformations as resulting from counselors prompting and clients reflecting on exceptions to a problematic self‐narrative (i.e., innovative moments; IMs) that emerges in counseling dialogues. On the basis of intensive IMM analysis of CCC case studies, the authors propose an integration of the 2 models that describes the sequence of client change in IMs across the 3 phases of CCC. This proposal provides both conceptual and assessment tools that make it possible to describe and analyze the process of client change through life‐designing dialogues. The authors illustrate the integrated framework with vignettes from case studies and conclude by suggesting research to examine the validity and usefulness of the client change sequence and interventions for using this pattern of change to foster client transformation.
Cardoso Paulo; Savickas Mark L; Gonçalves Miguel M
Career Development Quarterly
2019
2019-09
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12190" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/cdq.12190</a>
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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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12252" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1002/cdq.12252</a>