Counseling for career construction

Title

Counseling for career construction

Creator

Savickas Mark L

Publisher

Career Counseling., 2nd Ed.

Date

2019
1905-07

Description

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)

Subject

Life Experiences; Narratives; career construction; identity narrative; Occupational Guidance; life portrait; lifetime experiences; reflexivity; Self-Concept

Identifier

Format

Book Section

Search for Full-text

Users with a NEOMED Library login can search for full-text journal articles at the following url: https://libraryguides.neomed.edu/home

Rights

Article information provided for research and reference use only. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s).

Pages

125-144

ISSN

1-4338-2955-X

Citation

Savickas Mark L, “Counseling for career construction,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed May 1, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/10879.