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Career counseling and constructivism : elaboration of constructs / Mary McMahon and Mark Watson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Professions - Training, Education and Demographics
- Professions: training, education and demographics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constructivism (Psychology).
- Vocational education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Vocational guidance fits industrial societies and career counseling suits corporate cultures. However, neither guidance nor counseling seems to be the best practice for career intervention in the global economy of the information era. Thus, the emergence of career construction theory for comprehending vocational behavior and life-design interventions to assist people in choosing an adapting to work roles. This book examines and elaborates on the structural elements assembled into models of self-making, career constructing, and life designing.
- Contents:
- CAREER COUNSELING AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: ELABORATION OF CONSTRUCTS; CAREER COUNSELING AND CONSTRUCTIVISM: ELABORATION OF CONSTRUCTS; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; CONTENTS; FOREWORD ; PREFACE; INTRODUCING THE AUTHORS; CHAPTER BY CHAPTER OVERVIEW; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 THE NARRATIVE OF CONSTRUCTIVISM AND CAREER COUNSELLING ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CHANGING TIMES; THE NARRATIVE OF CHANGE; DEFINING CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES; CAREER COUNSELLING IMPLICATIONS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 CAREER COUNSELLING: WHAT'S THE STORY?; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; WHAT'S IN A TALE?
- STORIES AND CAREER COUNSELLING CO-CONSTRUCTING A FUTURE STORY FOR CAREER COUNSELLING; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3 THE CONSTRUCTION OF AGENCY IN CAREER COUNSELLING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; AGENCY ACROSS CAREER COUNSELLING APPROACHES; AGENCY IN SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM; AGENCY IN ACTION THEORY; CASE EXAMPLE: AGENCY IN A PARENT-ADOLESCENT CONVERSATION 1; CASE EXAMPLE: AGENCY IN CAREER COUNSELLING; CAREER COUNSELLING AS AGENCY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4 CAREER MEANING MAKING: AN ESSENTIAL IN LIFE; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MEANING MAKING IN CAREER PSYCHOLOGY
- CAREER MEANING MAKING: SOME ESSENTIAL EXEMPLARS CAREER MEANING MAKING: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 SELF-IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND REFLEXIVITY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; SELF-IDENTITY: A DYNAMIC SYSTEM OF SUBJECTIVE IDENTITY FORMS; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELLING; TWO SUCCINCT ANALYSES OF INTERVIEWS WITH HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 LIFE THEMES IN CAREER COUNSELLING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; A DIALOGICAL APPROACH TO CAREER COUNSELLING; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7 CONNECTEDNESS AND DIALOGISM IN CAREER THEORY AND PRACTICE
- ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION; THE AUTONOMOUS SELF IN PSYCHOLOGY; CAREER COUNSELLING AND THE AUTONOMOUS SELF; ENTER POSTMODERNISM: CONSTRUCTIVIST AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST CRITIQUES; CONNECTEDNESS AND EMBEDDEDNESS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING; DIALOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONNECTEDNESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CAREER COUNSELLING; CONNECTEDNESS AND CAREER COUNSELLING: A CASE STUDY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8 REFLECTION: A CONSTRUCTIVE SPACE FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; REFLECTION, REFLECTIVITY AND REFLEXIVITY; THE PROCESS, PURPOSE AND BENEFITS OF REFLECTION
- MODELS OF REFLECTION BEYOND KOLBA REFLECTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR WORKING WITH CLIENTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9 CARRE SENSE-MAKING: AN EMOTIONAL, COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PROCESS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; UNDERSTANDING CAREERS AS PROCESSES; UNDERSTANDING HOW NARRATIVES ARE PRODUCED; THE IMPORTANCE OF IN-THE-MOMENT EMOTIONS; THE SOCIAL NATURE OF EMOTIONS; THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN AFFECT, COGNITION AND BEHAVIOUR; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10 QUALITATIVE CAREER ASSESSMENT; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS QUALITATIVE CAREER ASSESSMENT?; QUALITATIVE CAREER ASSESSMENTS: PROCESS AND OPTIONS
- USING QUALITATIVE CAREER ASSESSMENT: EXCERPTS FROM THE CASE OF STELLA
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61761-707-5
- OCLC:
- 918624064
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