Counselling For Career Construction: Connecting Life Themes To Construct Life Portraits: Turning Pain Into Hope Ebrary

In this book, career counselling history, best practices as well as contemporary models and methods are brought together. In reflecting on the past, present, and future of career counselling, the story of the postmodern, narrative or career construction approach and the model and methods used to advance careers in the 21st century is told. A meta-reflection concept is proposed, based on career construction principles and practices and aimed at providing an examination of repeated reflection in career counselling. Overall, an attempt is made to craft a text that is not just specifically instructive but also more generally so. Whereas the theory section includes much that is hands-on and practical, the inclusion of narratives in the practice section turns theory into practice. Narratives illustrate the complexity and contextuality of partnering with clients toward (re-)designed lives. Ultimately, the volume aims to demonstrate how Mark Savickas’ counselling for career construction approach can be used by clients to connect life themes in order to construct life portraits under the guidance of counsellors. In this book, career counselling history, best practices as well as contemporary models and methods are brought together. In reflecting on the past, present, and future of career counselling, the story of the postmodern, narrative or career construction approach and the model and methods used to advance careers in the 21st century is told. A meta-reflection concept is proposed, based on career construction principles and practices and aimed at providing an examination of repeated reflection in career counselling. Overall, an attempt is made to craft a text that is not just specifically instructive but also more generally so. Whereas the theory section includes much that is hands-on and practical, the inclusion of narratives in the practice section turns theory into practice. Narratives illustrate the complexity and contextuality of partnering with clients toward (re- )designed lives. Ultimately, the volume aims to demonstrate how Mark Savickas counselling for career construction approach can be used by clients to connect life themes in order to construct life portraits under the guidance of counsellors Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Turning Hurt into Hope....Pages 1-8 Need for a New Approach to Career Counselling....Pages 9-14 The Effect of Changes in the World of Work on Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks for Career Counselling (Maree & Morgan, 2012)....Pages 15-27 Career Construction Principles and Practices....Pages 29-47 Salient Features of Career Construction Counselling....Pages 49-59 Three Early Recollections Technique....Pages 61-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Using the CIP and its Narrative Supplement in Career Counselling....Pages 71-79 Practical Implementation of Career Construction as Shown Through Case Studies....Pages 81-111 Closing Chapter....Pages 113-117 Epilogue....Pages 119-120 Back Matter....Pages 121-136