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>
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>
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>
Turn intention into action
Learning; Interviews; Narratives; Intention; Intention; career counseling; career construction; career theme; identity narrative; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Guidance; transformative learning
Career counseling practitioners hope that clients leave career counseling having experienced a process of transformative learning that has brought them into contact with their deepest sense of vitality. If so, clients are able to narrate a more comprehensible, coherent, and continuous identity narrative. Buoyed by biographical agency and ripe with intention, they should be ready for take action in the real world and prepared to deal with new questions that will emerge. So empowered, they begin to write a new chapter in their life stories, narratives that extend an occupational plot with a meaningful career theme. This chapter explains the importance of turning intention to action in the real world, first through exploration and trial, then through deciding and doing. It concludes with the case of a 19-year-old college sophomore majoring in biology to illustrate career construction interview, assessment routine, and counseling. (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/10.1037/0000105-009" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1037/0000105-009</a>