Abstract
The mapping of therapeutic collaboration throughout counseling deepens our understanding of how the helping relationship fosters client change. To better understand the process of career construction counseling (CCC), we analyzed the therapeutic collaboration on six successful face-to-face cases. The participants were six Portuguese adults, five women and one man, real clients of a career counseling service, and four psychologists, three female and one male trained in the career intervention model. The participants completed demographic questions and measures of career certainty, vocational identity, career indecision, and psychological functioning. The Therapeutic Collaboration Coding System was used to track collaboration throughout all interactive episodes. The clinical significance of the intervention was calculated by analyzing pre-post-test statistical differences for each case, with the Reliable Change Index and Z score. The findings evidenced a pattern of therapeutic collaboration evolution for good outcome cases. Based on this pattern, we propose a model of process-outcome evolution for the three phases of CCC.
Highlights
Career construction counseling (CCC; Savickas, 2019a) is a narrative practice that emphasizes the relational and narrative processes of career construction
Therapeutic Collaboration findings evidenced the existence of a pattern of evolving therapeutic collaboration for CCC good outcome cases
The six cases studied were considered successful cases because they presented at least one statistically reliable change in one of the five outcome measures. This pattern that starts with supporting problem interventions in the initial phase and evolves to more challenge interventions in subsequent phases is in line with the pattern found in psychotherapy (e.g., Pinto et al, 2018; Rodrigues, 2018)
Summary
Career construction counseling (CCC; Savickas, 2019a) is a narrative practice that emphasizes the relational and narrative processes of career construction. In the CCC model, counselors are encouraged to foster the resolution of clients’ career concerns, by collaborating and supporting clients as they rewrite a continuous and coherent life narrative. Counselors facilitate problem formulation and conduct a career construction interview (CCI; Savickas, 2015) to evoke life story episodes. In this phase, counselor and client begin the exploration of career constructs, such as needs, interests, goals and adaptability resources. Clients evaluate the realism of career plans, consider how to put their intentions into action, and reflect upon the changes achieved during the intervention (Cardoso et al, 2019; Savickas, 2019a; Silva, 2020)
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