Attending to Clients' Psychological Needs During Career Construction Counseling

Attending to Clients' Psychological Needs During Career Construction Counseling

Sampaio C; Cardoso P; Rossier J; Savickas ML

Career Development Quarterly

2021

2021-06

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.

career construction counseling; career counseling process; counseling tasks; needs; problem formulation

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96-113

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69

0889-4019

NEOMED College of Medicine

Department of Family & Community Medicine

June 2021 List