Career Counseling and Psychotherapy: False Dichotomies and Recommended Remedies

Hackett, Gail

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“…The ideology of career counseling in the settings studied here is to enhance the decisionmaking skills and expertise of clients so they can make good vocational choices throughout their lives (Morrill & Forrest, 1970;Hackett, 1993;Spokane & Fretz, 1993). Rather than focusing on the diagnosis of client abilities and inclinations and then offering advice, this approach focuses on guiding clients through the process of making a career decision.…”

Section: The Setting and Behaviormentioning

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Values, intelligence and client behavior in career counseling: A field study

Sagiv

Schwartz

2004

Eur J Psychol Educ

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We examine relations of values and intelligence to overt behavior in a field study of clients in career counseling (N=365). Eleven counselors reported their clients' independence, activity and insightfulness behaviors. As predicted, both values and intelligencecorrelated substantially with particular behaviors. Activity and independence correlated positively with self-direction and achievement values and negatively with conformity and tradition values. Independence correlated positively with maturity values as well. Insightfulness correlated positively with maturity values and negatively with conformity and tradition values. All three behaviors correlated positively with intelligence. Values predicted behavior over and above intelligence, but intelligence added to the prediction by values only for the clients of some counselors. Implications of the findings for research on values and behavior are discussed.Do values influence daily behavior? The literature on basic human values typically defines values as transsituational goals that serve as guiding principles in people's lives (Kluckhohn, 1951;Rokeach, 1973;Schwartz, 1992). As guiding principles, values would be expected to influence daily behavior. A person who attributes high importance to security values, for example, should act in ways that reflect the pursuit of security (e.g., avoiding situations that involve risk) and that promote attainment of the goals these values represent (i.e., stability and order for self and close others).Contrary to this expectation, many past studies of value-behavior relations report weak to near zero correlations (e.g., see in Kristiansen & Hotte, 1996). Schwartz (1996) pointed to possible reasons for the weak findings (e.g., unreliable single value indicators, failure to take account of the value conflicts and tradeoffs implicated in the behavior and situation). Using his value theory and methods, researchers has presented evidence of substantial and consistent relations between values and a variety of behaviors and behavioral intentions (e.g., Bardi &

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Section: The Setting and Behaviormentioning

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Values, intelligence and client behavior in career counseling: A field study

Sagiv

Schwartz

2004

Eur J Psychol Educ

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“…Counseling for work and relationship has implications for a range of intervention practices, including the specific practice of career counseling and the more general practice of counseling and psychotherapy, especially as counseling and psychotherapy is practiced by those who consider helping clients move forward in their lives as essential for successful outcomes (Summers, 2001;Wachtel, 2008) or who advocate for integrating personal and career counseling (Betz & Corning, 1993;Blustein, 2006Blustein, , 2008Blustein & Spengler, 1995;Hackett, 1993;Juntunen, 2006). It also has implications for education.…”

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Counseling for Work and Relationship

Richardson

2011

The Counseling Psychologist

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Counseling for work and relationship is a social constructionist perspective, informed by feminist and social justice values, and responsive to radical changes in contemporary lives, that fosters a shift in vocational psychology from helping people develop careers to helping people construct lives through work and relationship. The first and major proposition of this perspective is a new discourse for describing the construction of lives that specifies four major social contexts through which people construct lives. These social contexts are market work, personal care work, personal relationships, and market work relationships. Additional propositions of the counseling for work and relationship perspective are the centrality of narrative theory for understanding how lives are constructed and agentic action as a critical process in constructing lives. Implications for research, intervention, and training are considered.

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“…Hackett (1993) stated that as a matter of ethical practice, counselors must be equipped to meet client needs. However, if not properly prepared in career counseling, counselors will miss opportunities to assess and address clients' vocational concerns (Spengler, Blustein, & Strohmer, as cited in Hackett, 1993). Encouraging greater acceptance of career counseling can be accomplished by offering career counseling practicum and internships.…”

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“…The link between career development and mental health has been recognized (Herr, 2005;Hinkelman & Luzzo, 2007). Hackett (1993) stated that as a matter of ethical practice, counselors must be equipped to meet client needs. However, if not properly prepared in career counseling, counselors will miss opportunities to assess and address clients' vocational concerns (Spengler, Blustein, & Strohmer, as cited in Hackett, 1993).…”

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Attitudes Regarding Career Counseling: Perceptions and Experiences of Counselors‐in‐Training

Lara

Kline

Paulson

2011

The Career Development Quart

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The authors explored attitudes regarding career counseling. Interview data were analyzed and conceptualized using grounded theory methods. Peers, faculty, and programs influenced participants' attitudes. Participants' observations regarding instruction and developed understanding of their own career development figured into favorable attitudes regarding career counseling. Data revealed that students did not perceive that they were competent or confident conducting career counseling. Implications for counselor education are discussed. Engels, Minor, Sampson, and Splete (1995) stated that counselors who focus on career development concerns must be prepared to address stress, wellness, change, performance, occupational health, satisfaction, interpersonal and intrapersonal issues, family, leisure, technology, and communication issues with their clients. Other authors (e.g., Flores & Heppner, 2002;Lent, 2001) agreed that it is critical for counselors to gain proficiency in the practice of career counseling with all populations in order to adequately meet clients' needs. Hartung (2005) further asserted that economic globalization demands that career counseling assist workers worldwide in adapting to the transforming work environment.Hartung (2005) pointed out a shortage of adequately trained career counselors, despite an increasing need for career counseling. To complicate this issue, authors (e.g., Hartung, 2005;Warnke et al., 1993) described interest in career counseling as low and perceptions of career counseling as negative within the profession. According to Watts (2005), a closer look reveals that the counseling profession has marginalized career counseling. While Tinsley (2001) remarked that counseling training programs have devolved from training students to offer clients vocational assistance to training them to work with psychopathology, Savickas, Van Esbroeck, and Herr (2005) indicated that master's programs accredited

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Career Counseling and Psychotherapy: False Dichotomies and Recommended Remedies

Cited by 67 publications

References 43 publications

Values, intelligence and client behavior in career counseling: A field study

Values, intelligence and client behavior in career counseling: A field study

Counseling for Work and Relationship

Attitudes Regarding Career Counseling: Perceptions and Experiences of Counselors‐in‐Training

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