scholarly journals Facing the Chaos of Today’s World: Life Design as a New Concept of Counselling for New Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Violetta Drabik-Podgórna
Keyword(s):  
Career Counselling ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Intervention Model ◽  
Design Paradigm ◽  
Viable Approach ◽  
Life Design

My goal in this paper is to present what is referred to as the life design paradigm as a new, viable approach to career design which takes into account the new contexts cursorily outlined above. Drawing on the notion of chaos as a tool for describing today’s world, I seek to show how the concept can help us conceptualise the changing systems of work organisation, people’s biographies and applicatory potentials of career counselling theories. By doing this, I to make the case for the pertinence and utility of the intervention model proposed by Mark L. Savickas and his collaborators.

Life-Design Counselling from an Innovative Career Counselling Perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Maria Eduarda Duarte ◽  
Maria Paula Paixão ◽  
José Tomás da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Career Counselling ◽  
Life Design

Exploring processes of change in a life-design career development intervention in socio-economically challenged youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Anouk J. Albien
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
South African ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Life Design

Previous research has sought to identify the underlying processes and mechanisms that lead to lasting changes in a client's career development, yet more research needed to understand what elicits effective changes. The present research will explore how life-design career counselling supports change in a group of disadvantaged South African adolescents. The present research study will focus on a post-intervention qualitative strand, which included evaluative worksheets completed post-intervention (n = 265) and a focus data six months later (n = 6). Braun and Clarke's (2006) content analysis was used to group themes according to the Career Construction Theory (CCT) and process constructs of narrative career counselling. Qualitative findings provide evidence that the intervention had elicited long-term changes in career development and facilitated reflective processes. Implications and recommendations for research and practice will be discussed.

scholarly journals The Narrative Turn in Career Development Theories: An Integrative Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Rossier ◽  
Paulo Miguel Cardoso ◽  
Maria Eduarda Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Career Interventions ◽  
Design Paradigm ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory ◽  
Person Organization Fit

During the past 70 years, diverse vocational theories have focused on various important topics such as career choice processes or person–organization fit and adaptation to describe people’s career development. More recently, narrative approaches have been proposed by several authors inspired by dialogical self theory or the life story model of identity in career counselling interventions. This narrative turn encourages career interventions to focus more on the meaning experiences; the reflexive processes involved; and the contextual aspects of career paths, such as the life design paradigm. Narrative identity facilitates understanding these dynamics once it is conceived as a meta-capacity, allowing people to self-direct and design their actions within these continuous interrelations. Narrative identity is built on a dialogical relationship, allowing individuals to situate themselves in social space and strengthen subjectivity, reflexivity, and intentionality. Considering the narrative processes for intervention research will permit examination in greater detail of the processes underlying change. This chapter thus discusses how narrative career development theories, such as the career construction theory or the life-long self-construction theory, can complement existing approaches and constitute an integrative and articulated framework if they take account of previously acquired knowledge.

Career counselling with life design in a collectivist cultural context: An action research study

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Aparna Bhalla ◽  
Gill Frigerio
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Career Intervention ◽  
Narrative Career Counselling ◽  
Client Responses ◽  
Contextual Adaptation ◽  
Life Design

Large-scale macro forces are restructuring forms of work in urban India creating the need for alternative methods of career counselling. This research explores the application of a US-based approach to constructing careers i.e. Life-Design Career Counseling (i. e., LDC) with two mid-career professionals in India. Data consisted of client responses to different narrative career counselling exercises such as a lifeline activity, a career construction interview and semi-structured feedback interviews. Action research's focus on reflexivity helped integrate theory with practice to contribute to knowledge production and meaningful innovations within practice. Findings from this research underscored the importance of relationship, reflection and sense-making and the need for India to utilise a culturally resonant career intervention. The study holds value for career professionals, in India and beyond where LDC is still unexplored. Moreover, LDC practitioners in non-Western countries and collectivist societies will benefit from a contextual adaptation that encourages focus on client learning.

Using career counselling with group life design principles to improve the employability of disadvantaged young adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus G. Maree ◽  
Erna W. Gerryts ◽  
Lizelle Fletcher ◽  
Joyce Olivier
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Group Life ◽  
Life Design

How online career counseling changes career development: A life design paradigm

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 2655-2672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nooshin Pordelan ◽  
Ahmad Sadeghi ◽  
Mohammad Reza Abedi ◽  
Marjan Kaedi
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Design Paradigm ◽  
Life Design
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