Career Counselling Effectiveness and Contributing Factors

Abstract

<p>This chapter explores the research related to whether career counselling is effective for individuals with vocational issues. In particular, there is considerable empirical support for career counselling related to career choice issues and searching for employment. Hence, practitioners can use this evidence to convince administrators, policymakers, parents, students, and other constituencies of the worth of career counselling. In addition, the chapter provides empirical evidence that practitioners can use to improve their effectiveness in working with people with career issues. This discussion mainly focuses on the results from older and newer meta-analyses regarding the ingredients that have a significant influence on effect sizes or the critical ingredients in career counselling. For example, there is considerable evidence that support from individuals, including the counsellor, may play an important role in the effectiveness of career counselling. Other factors that contribute to effective practice are also identified and discussed. The chapter further explores the need for additional research that addresses the most effective methods for providing career counselling. As the world of work becomes increasingly complex, it is important that researchers continue to explore the most effective strategies for assisting people in finding satisfying, meaningful, and productive work.</p>

Trajectories of Change in Career Decision Difficulties During a Manualized Individual Career Counseling Intervention: The Influence of Counselor Adherence, Working Alliance and Client Personality Traits

“…Despite the above-mentioned limitations, the current study contributes to meeting the need to develop effective manualized career counseling interventions on career decision difficulties using a design allowing researchers to demonstrate the extent to which the interventions were implemented as intended (Whiston, 2021). This study also makes a novel contribution to the career counseling literature by using GMM to identify distinct clients trajectories and predictors of these trajectories.…”

“…Indeed, although the authors offered a detailed description of the career counseling intervention, they did not use procedures (e.g., self-reported adherence to the intervention manual) to assess the extent to which counselors implemented the intervention components as expected. In a series of recommendations for career counseling research, Whiston (2021) called for the development of more career counseling intervention manuals and argued that researchers must demonstrate that the intervention delivered by counselors is consistent with how it was designed to be implemented.…”