Career Counseling as a Science, a Skill, and an Art: Drawing on the Inspiring Career-Life Story of Dolly Parton to Demonstrate How Theory Building in Career Construction Counseling is Premised on Practice

The repeated narration of specific events and identity stability in mid-life

10.31219/osf.io/nk7ym ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kate C. McLean ◽

Kristin Gudbjorg Haraldsson ◽

Christin Kober

Keyword(s):

Psychological Functioning ◽

Narrative Identity ◽

Life Story ◽

Theory Building ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

High Repetition ◽

Manifest Content ◽

Traumatic History ◽

Life Story Interviews

In this case-study based qualitative analysis, we sought to examine the question of stability in narrative identity. We did this by examining four mid-life adults, who each provided two life story interviews, four years apart as a part of a larger study. Two of these participants were deemed ‘low repeaters,’ for having little repetition of manifest narrative content (i.e., actual events repeated at the two interviews). Two were deemed ‘high repeaters’ for having a much greater number of repeated manifest content. Our analysis focused on similarities between the low repeaters and the high repeaters, as well as the differences between them, with the aim of theory-building in the domain of narrative identity stability. Broadly, our analyses revealed that low repetition can occur for a variety of reasons including methodological factors, the occurrence of new life events between interviews, and traumatic history. High repetition can also occur for multiple reasons including performative concerns and conformity to cultural norms regarding life scripts. We offer these analyses as fodder for building theory regarding the phenomenology of identity stability, and its meaning for psychological functioning.

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Repeated Narration

10.31234/osf.io/6mau5 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kate C. McLean ◽

Christin Kober ◽

Kristin Gudbjorg Haraldsson

Keyword(s):

Psychological Functioning ◽

Narrative Identity ◽

Life Story ◽

Theory Building ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

High Repetition ◽

Manifest Content ◽

Traumatic History ◽

Life Story Interviews

In this case-study based qualitative analysis, we sought to examine the question of stability in narrative identity. We did this by examining four mid-life adults, who each provided two life story interviews, four years apart as a part of a larger study. Two of these participants were deemed ‘low repeaters,’ for having little repetition of manifest narrative content (i.e., actual events repeated at the two interviews). Two were deemed ‘high repeaters’ for having a much greater number of repeated manifest content. Our analysis focused on similarities between the low repeaters and the high repeaters, as well as the differences between them, with the aim of theory-building in the domain of narrative identity stability. Broadly, our analyses revealed that low repetition can occur for a variety of reasons including methodological factors, the occurrence of new life events between interviews, and traumatic history. High repetition can also occur for multiple reasons including performative concerns and conformity to cultural norms regarding life scripts. We offer these analyses as fodder for building theory regarding the phenomenology of identity stability, and its meaning for psychological functioning.

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Meaning Making Process through the Career Construction Interview: A Case Study

Journal of Higher Education and Science ◽

10.5961/jhes.2021.468 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 486-495

Author(s):

nurten karacan özdemir

Keyword(s):

Career Counseling ◽

Role Models ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Career Decision ◽

Interpersonal Process ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Early Recollections ◽

Career Construction ◽

Career Construction Interview

This study examined (a) what changes career construction counseling used the Career Construction Interview (CCI), integrated with Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) brought about on the client (b) how the IPR uncovered insights and unspoken inner experiences during career counseling, and (c) how the CCI prompted the solutions for client’s career problem. The study based on a case study with 24 years-old, the fourth-year student in a private university. Findings revealed that (a) examining role models, early recollections and motto during the CCI uncovered self-awareness and insights about the self, career indecision and motivation needed for the vocational future, (b) the IPR revealed values, the role of significant people on career decision process of the client and the need for approval from them, and (c) the CCI contributed the client’s career decision making process, motivation and taking an action. The study verified the use of the CCI and the IPR in career counseling process, theoretically and brought new, dynamic and meaning making methods to career counseling practices in higher education.

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Geïntegreerde, kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe beroepsvoorligting en beroepskonstruksie vir ’n aandagafleibare seun met tegniese belangstelling en aanleg lei tot positiewe resultate

Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie ◽

10.4102/satnt.v33i1.1183 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jacobus G. Maree

Keyword(s):

Attention Deficit ◽

Life Story ◽

Quantitative Approach ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Career Counselling ◽

Aptitude Tests ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Group Context ◽

Career Construction ◽

Technical Interest

Integrated, qualitative and quantitative career counselling and career construction with a learner with a technical interest and aptitude who presents with attention deficit leads to positive results. This article describes the value of career construction based on an integrating qualitative and quantitative approach for a learner with a technical interest and aptitude who presents with attention deficit. The qualitative research design entails an intrinsic, instrumental case study aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of the participant in his natural context. The participant was a 17 year old young man who was assessed with a view to career counselling. Hence both purpose and convenience sampling were used. Assessment was repeated after a 2-year interval with feedback following each assessment. Data was gathered by means of qualitative, as well as quantitative techniques (quantitative: the Jung Personality Questionnaire, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Differential Aptitude Tests and the Rothwell-Miller Interest Blank, the Maree Career Matrix; qualitative: a collage, the Career Interest Profile, life line, early memories, as well as the life story techniques). In the second assessment his interests remained largely stable; his aptitudes were generally the same as before and his study orientation seemed to have improved. Furthermore, his tendency towards introversion had changed to a relatively strong tendency towards extroversion. Qualitative assessment was done largely on the basis of reflexivity, or repeated reflection about his own reflection, and revealed a dormant willingness to work harder and to participate more actively in his self-construction and in the writing down of his emerging career life story. Some recommendations were made to enable him to demonstrate this willingness in practice. The results cannot be generalised, but it seems that career construction based on a qualitative and quantitative approach for a learner with an attention deficit and a strong technical aptitude may potentially contribute to substantial changes in the learner’s life. Comprehensive research in a group context is necessary.

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Woman's Surgeon: The Life Story of J. Marion Sims

Gastroenterology ◽

10.1016/s0016-5085(51)80056-8 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 150

Keyword(s):

Life Story

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Can a Theory of Suicide Predict All “Suicides” in the Elderly?

Crisis ◽

10.1027//0227-5910.24.1.7 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 7-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Antoon A. Leenaars

Keyword(s):

Sigmund Freud ◽

Terminally Ill ◽

Later Life ◽

Psychological Theory ◽

The Elderly ◽

Theory Building ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Suicide Notes ◽

Psychiatric Study

Summary: Older adults consistently have the highest rates of suicide in most societies. Despite the paucity of studies until recently, research has shown that suicides in later life are best understood as a multidimensional event. An especially neglected area of research is the psychological/psychiatric study of personality factors in the event. This paper outlines one comprehensive model of suicide and then raises the question: Is such a psychiatric/psychological theory applicable to all suicides in the elderly? To address the question, I discuss the case of Sigmund Freud; raise the topic of suicide and/or dignified death in the terminally ill; and examine suicide notes of the both terminally ill and nonterminally ill elderly. I conclude that, indeed, greater study and theory building are needed into the “suicides” of the elderly, including those who are terminally ill.

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