Abstract
This article considers the potential complementarity of traditional career assessment and more recent narrative approaches -in particular narrative career counseling and story telling approach- to career counseling in terms of theory and practice. It describes an Integrated Qualitative Structured Interview to construct stories about the four sources of career decision making self-efficacy information: mastery experiences, vicarious learning, social persuasion and emotions regulations techniques. The model facilitates and enables narrative exploration to supplement clients’ knowledge and understanding of the role of past and present influences concerning career decision making self-efficacy. The Narrative career counselling and the story telling approach and Social Cognitive Career Theory are the foundation of the qualitative structured interview based on story crafting questions.
Highlights
Modern trends n Career Counselling and Career AssessmentIn the economic and social complexity of recent decades, the demand as far as career development is concerned, refers to the negotiation of the changes and the reconstruction of life and career (Peavy,1998,2000)
This article considers the potential complementarity between the narrative career counseling and story telling approach and the social cognitive career theory and describes a qualitative Structured Interview Process to construct stories about career decision making self-efficacy
Besides narrative exploration of standardized scores offered by traditional career assessment we suggest the use of quantitative methods
Summary
In the economic and social complexity of recent decades, the demand as far as career development is concerned, refers to the negotiation of the changes and the reconstruction of life and career (Peavy,1998,2000). Theories referring to career development process which determined the counselling practice before the current post-modern era had a positivist, psychological or behaviouristic basis The body of their conceptual constructs had as its basic underpinning the discovery of the causal relations which are thought to determine the social phenomena. A new, sustainable approach appeared, drew from the strengths of both quantitative career assessment and intervention and narrative career counselling and is being used more and more to deal with career choice challenges This trend responds to prompts for a movement with dominant test and tell metaphor evident in career assessment to that of narrative metaphor or from scores to stories in the postmodern era (Savickas, 1993). The story telling approach (McMahon, 2007,2009; McMahon & Watson 2010,2012) are briefly overviewed because are the basis of the structured interview process used to demonstrate the complementarity of career assessment and story telling
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