Contextualisation as a Determining Factor for Career Counselling Throughout the World

2020

AJOPA

Section: Factors That Co-determine Career Theory Development and Assessment-related Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Value Of Utilising and Integrating Qualitative And Quantitative Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The need for contextually appropriate career counselling assessment: Using narrative approaches in career counselling assessment in African contexts

2020

AJOPA

“…Over the past few years, I have researched the issue of assessing young people online and then proceeding to administer CCC offline, using the Career Interest Profile (Maree, 2017) and the Maree Career Matrix (Maree, 2016) (Maree, 2019(Maree, , 2020. I have investigated the value of a blended approach (combining online and offline career counselling) as well as a hybrid approach (researching 'best' ways of integrating online and offline counselling) with considerable success.…”

Section: Some Of the Main Similarities And Differences Between In-person And E-career Counsellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The need for caution, prevention and referral. Based on many years of research (Maree, 2013(Maree, , 2019(Maree, , 2020 in urban as well as remote areas, and using instruments that are available online and in hard copy format, the importance of doing everything possible to ensure that assessment and feedback take place in a manner that meets best practice from an ethical perspective cannot be overemphasised. Career counsellors at all levels also need to know when to refer clients to relevant experts if they encounter 'changes' (emotional or otherwise) that they are not qualified to deal with.…”

Section: Some Of the Main Similarities And Differences Between In-person And E-career Counsellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovating and contextualising career counselling for young people during the Covid-19 pandemic

South African Journal of Psychology

2021

This article reports on how the changing career counselling needs of young people during the Covid-19 pandemic can be met. It is argued that innovative and contextualised career counselling that is in line with the basic principles of ‘best practice’ and draws on a life design–based framework offers a viable conceptual framework for this kind of endeavour. Such counselling can promote young people’s adaptability; enhance their employability; and bolster their narratability, narrativity and autobiographicity. A brief theoretical overview explains innovation and contextualisation in career counselling and clarifies key aspects of counselling for self- and career construction. The style of e-career counselling advocated here can help young people make meaning of their career-lives and (re-)kindle their sense of hope and purpose. Moreover, it can help them devise practicable strategies to actuate their sense of purpose and hope and also help them experience a sense of being part of something much bigger than themselves. In addition, it can promote young people’s entrepreneurship and self-entrepreneurship and bolster their employability. Longitudinal research, including qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies on the topic, is needed to examine the value of the e-career counselling approach. Such research could involve different assessment instruments and counselling strategies and include questionnaires to facilitate pre- and post-assessment of the effectiveness of the approach.

“…The ultimate aims of career counseling are to help people choose appropriate fields of study and careers, make meaning of their career-lives, find a sense of purpose in and design successful lives, and make meaningful social contributions [1][2][3][4]. To achieve these aims, it is essential to help people deal with hurt and trauma experienced in the past, rise above contextual challenges, and access much-needed resources.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Personal and Career Counseling to Promote Sustainable Development and Change

Fabio

2018

Sustainability

This article reports on the integration of personal and career counseling to promote sustainable development and change. An explorative, descriptive, instrumental, single-case study approach was followed. Qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies were used to collect data, and an integrative career construction counseling intervention was conducted. The intervention comprised, first, elicitation of the participant's micro-and meso-career-life stories; second, integration of these stories into a coherent macro-story, with the participant's authorization of the narrative; and, third, co-construction by the participant and the counselor of action steps to facilitate action and forward movement. Integrating personal and career counseling helped to address the participants' deep-seated personal needs while simultaneously addressing his career counseling needs. Longitudinal, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research is essential to determine the value and importance of integrating personal and career counseling. This study contributed to expanding the research on interventions that integrate personal and career counseling, promoting the development of sustainable career-life projects.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4176 2 of 16 in the first place. Here, we agree with Savickas [8,11] and others who maintain that career counseling is, by definition, personal counseling.From a psychological perspective, sustainability and sustainable development [12,13] relate to promoting strengths that will improve people's chances to enjoy decent and meaningful lives [2,14,15]. This perspective can be linked to a primary prevention perspective [16], which stresses the importance of constructing a healthy life (both personally and professionally) through timely counseling interventions. From an ecological and socioeconomic as well as individual perspective, the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development [12,13] aims to improve people's quality of life generally. Advanced counseling interventions can promote reflection and reflexivity on what constitutes actual sustainability for people. Actual sustainability here refers to people's core goals, interests, and values. Ultimately, the goal is to promote sustainable career-life projects and inspire successful actions and positive change [17].This paper is articulated as follows. Theories about personal counseling, life design counseling principles, integrated use of two instruments to promote career counseling are delineated; rationale for the study and goals of the study are provided; method, outcomes of the quantitative part of the assessment, outcomes of the qualitative part of the assessment, discussion, advice for counselors contemplating this type of intervention, limitations, recommendations for future research, and conclusion are presented.