In this book, career counselling history, best practices as well as
contemporary models and methods are brought together. In reflecting
on the past, present, and future of career counselling, the story
of the postmodern, narrative or career construction approach and
the model and methods used to advance careers in the 21st century
is told. A meta-reflection concept is proposed, based on career
construction principles and practices and aimed at providing an
examination of repeated reflection in career counselling. Overall,
an attempt is made to craft a text that is not just specifically
instructive but also more generally so. Whereas the theory section
includes much that is hands-on and practical, the inclusion of
narratives in the practice section turns theory into practice.
Narratives illustrate the complexity and contextuality of
partnering with clients toward (re-)designed lives. Ultimately, the
volume aims to demonstrate how Mark Savickas' counselling for
career construction approach can be used by clients to connect life
themes in order to construct life portraits under the guidance of
counsellors. "Counselling for Career Construction harnesses the
power of story to yield an innovative, inclusive, and context-rich
perspective on career development and counselling for the digital
age. Through brilliant scholarly analysis and vivid practical
application, Professor Kobus Maree explains and demonstrates in
this book how self-reflection and reflexive self-construction - key
processes of career construction - assist people across the diverse
spectrum of life to use work as an instrument of self-making and
self-healing. Counselling for Career Construction sends up a
resounding call for us to construct and shape our lives through
work with confidence and conviction. More importantly, it shows us
how to answer that call." Prof. P. J. Hartung, Department of Family
and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, United
States of America. "The highest compliment to either paradigm or
theory is when someone kindly and carefully nudges either toward
further definition and utility. Kobus Maree has accomplished the
aforementioned both thoroughly and brilliantly." Prof. W. C.
Briddick, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
"This book ... is a treasure trove of innovative thinking in
counselling that provides a launching pad for the next generation
of research in this exciting field." Prof. J. D. Jansen,
Vice-Chancellor and Rector, University of the Free State, South
Africa "This book is an exemplar of enlightening, and enlightened,
scholarship. Its instructive, avant-garde contents support
early-career and veteran practitioners' partnering with clients
towards meaningful career construction, interrogate positivist or
purely quantitative approaches to career designing, and fuel
scholarly debate on the theory and practice of career counselling.
Essentially, this text is requisite reading, for psychology
students, academics, and practitioners." Prof. L. C. Theron, the
School of Education Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, North-West
University, Vaal Triangle Campus, South Africa "Offering a unique,
inspiring and meaningful contribution to the field of career
counselling, this volume advances the Savickian perspective of
career construction by advocating reflective self- and career
construction under the watchful eye of a career counsellor. It
represents essential reading for scholars and career counsellors in
the post-modern era." Prof. A. Di Fabio, Department of Counselling
Psychology, the University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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