Career Counseling Tailored to the Evangelical Christian Woman at Midlife

The unique career counseling needs of traditional evangelical Christian women at midlife are seen as precipitating from two circumstances: (a) children reaching school age and/or (b) husbands undergoing midlife crises which threaten their marriages. The rationale for choosing a Christian versus secular counselor is discussed, along with ways to adapt conventional secular counseling strategies and tools to accommodate evangelical values. Suggestions for motivating clients biblically are offered Problems addressed include phases of counseling, guilt issues, family concerns, and financial considerations. A decision-making model that emphasizes the centrality of values and a “change agent” approach to barriers is advocated.

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A decision-making model applied to career counseling

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1007/bf01353004 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 107-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christine Olson ◽

Ellen McWhirter ◽

John J. Horan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Career Counseling ◽

Decision Making Model

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Between pain and hope: Examining women’s marginality in the evangelical context

European Journal of Women s Studies ◽

10.1177/1350506819846167 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 405-420

Author(s):

Katie Christine Gaddini

Keyword(s):

Ethnographic Study ◽

Christian Women ◽

Evangelical Christian ◽

Normative Framework ◽

Gendered Identities ◽

Evangelical Women ◽

Experiences Of Women ◽

The Church ◽

Christian Woman ◽

The Ideal

This article examines religious and gendered identities through an ethnographic study of unmarried evangelical Christian women in London. Moving away from an approach that shows that women feel empowered through their conservative, male-dominated religious environment, or else they find it constraining and leave the church, this article investigates the experiences of women who feel limited by their church, and still remain embedded in their Christian environment. The article begins by exploring the normative figure of the ideal Christian woman operative in this context. It then describes the experiences of women who do not fit the norm, outlining the affective toll they suffer through marginality. Finally, the article examines how some women rely on hope in order to change the normative framework within their church. This article argues that leaving and staying are not static categories; instead evangelical women, frustrated with their marginal positions, revealed a continuum of investment underlain by resilience and hope.

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A Decision-Making Model Applied to Career Counseling

Journal of Career Development ◽

10.1177/089484538901600204 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 107-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Christine Olson ◽

Ellen McWhirter ◽

John J. Horan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Career Counseling ◽

Decision Making Model

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Applying the Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Ranking Commercial Banks: The Case of Vietnam

Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.33301/2019.jed.spi.09 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 125-133

Author(s):

Duong Truong Thi Thuy ◽

Anh Pham Thi Hoang

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Commercial Banks ◽

Decision Model ◽

Business Models ◽

Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽

Ideal Solution ◽

Topsis Method ◽

Decision Making Model

Banking has always played an important role in the economy because of its effects on individuals as well as on the economy. In the process of renovation and modernization of the country, the system of commercial banks has changed dramatically. Business models and services have become more diversified. Therefore, the performance of commercial banks is always attracting the attention of managers, supervisors, banks and customers. Bank ranking can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision model. This article uses the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to rank some commercial banks in Vietnam.

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