CONSTRUCTIVIST COUNSELING FOR CAREER INDECISION

Title

CONSTRUCTIVIST COUNSELING FOR CAREER INDECISION

Creator

Savickas M L

Publisher

Career Development Quarterly

Date

1995
1995-06

Description

Twentieth-century vocational guidance has been an objective enterprise in which counselors have studied and treated career indecision by abstracting and objectifying it. This article describes how the logical positivist perspective on indecision as an objective phenomenon has evolved over the course of this century. Then, the article explains how constructivist counselors view indecision as clients' subjective attempts to give meaning to crisis points in their lives. This view permits a conceptualization of career counseling as a process of articulating a client's life theme. The article concludes with a case study that illustrates a life-theme approach to counseling for career indecision.

Subject

decision scale; Psychology; validation

Format

Journal Article

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Pages

363-373

Issue

4

Volume

43

Citation

Savickas M L, “CONSTRUCTIVIST COUNSELING FOR CAREER INDECISION,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed March 29, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/7023.