Editorial

Abstract

Our Journal's third issue of volume twelve contains four very different contributions. The first contribution presents how a specific new approach to personal counselling and psychotherapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), might be used in a vocational or career guidance context. Adaptation of approaches that are developed in clinical psychology or psychotherapy can strengthen our own interventions and diversify them in order to adapt them to needs of our clients or counselees. The second contribution presents an analysis of the development of occupational aspirations in a very large sample of Korean adolescents. This study used a longitudinal design and applied contemporary statistical tools in order to analyse the trajectories of these aspirations. The third contribution conceptualized the relationship between narrative approaches and the systems theory framework (STF), and studied how story-crafting careers can facilitate client's desired, sustainable, and achievable stories to emerge. The last empirical contribution presents a very well conducted and original qualitative study about an important topic: dilemmas career counsellors face. The most frequent dilemma concerns the legitimacy of confronting a client when the counsellor has noted a discrepancy between the client's vocational choice and his or her abilities and an employer's expectations of a specific professional in that field. This dilemma could be the result of the counsellor's desire to take into account social constraints and the counselee's needs, aspirations, or desires simultaneously, and has important ethical implications.In the first contribution, ''Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as a career counselling strategy,'' Nancey P. Hoare, Peter McIlveen, and Nadine Hamilton presented an analyses and a case example of how ACT can be applied in the field of career guidance. This approach can help career counsellors to take emotions into greater account, and to increase clients' psychological flexibility and their abilities to regulate their emotions. It is notable that McIlveen and Patton (2010), in another