Kobus Maree & Annamaria Di Fabio 
Exploring New Horizons in Career Counselling 
Turning Challenge into Opportunities

‘This book brings together eminent global theorists and practitioners to share their views on the evolution of career counselling in recent decades. Multiple changes of a fundamental and complex nature, as well as related challenges in the world of work, have necessitated career counselling to undergo such an evolution. The authors examine the future nature and scope of new directions in the field of career counselling psychology and they critically reflect on, as well as promote the predominant theoretical and conceptual framework of the field of career counselling. The latest models and methods in and for the 21st century are explored and teased out, including Mark Savickas’ proposal to shift the focus in interventions from conceptualising the self as content to seeing the self as a process. This approach is in keeping with the notion of career as a story and consistent with leading theories such as Jean Guichard’s self-construction framework and the life design paradigm. The authors deliver an avant garde text that is easy to read and use without diluting the conceptual and terminological complexities of the field. 


The book is an invaluable resource for new, emerging and experienced researchers, academics, scholars, researchers, psychologists, social workers, teachers and clients: 


• It merges what is known about the field with emerging approaches.


• It gives an overview of theoretical paradigms that can be applied to a changing world of work.


• It makes a critical analysis of germane questions such as “What does the future hold for the field of career counselling and how can challenges be turned into opportunities?” and “How can different paradigms, approaches and strategies be harnessed to promote clients’ career-life wellbeing and resilience?”.


• It facilitates an understanding of the skills necessary to deal with career-related transitions, challenges and barriers to help people acquire transferable career-life skills and career(-choice) readiness. 


• It examines the importance of career adaptability and how people can develop this vital 21st century (survival) competency.


• It challenges career counsellors to grasp and acquire skills to promote and advocate social justice agendas.


• It promotes and demonstrates the exciting and promising notion of dialogue writing to enhance the dialogical work of the career counsellor and client.


Individually and collectively, the authors team up to blend retrospect and prospect, and they make a concerted effort to convert 21st century challenges and frontiers in career counselling into opportunities, hurt into hope, hopelessness into inspiration.’


                       

Tabella dei contenuti

‘Foreword; Merging Retrospect and Prospect to Move Career Counselling Forward; Blending Retrospect and Prospect in Order to Convert Challenges into Opportunities in Career Counselling; Converging Vistas from Scores and Stories: An Integrative Approach


to Career Counselling; Life Adaptability Qualitative Assessment (LAQu A): A Narrative Instrument for Evaluating Counselling Intervention Effectiveness; Projecting into the Future: Theoretical Conjectures; Mapping a Personal Career Theory; Career Human Agency Theory; Systemic Thinking: A Foundation for ‘Doing’ Narrative Career Counselling;Exploring New Perspectives in Coaching: Coaching as a New Paradigm for Career Interventions; Limitation and Creativity: A Chaos Theory of Careers Perspective; Anticipating and Managing Career-Related Changes and Challenges; Promoting Transferable Non-Cognitive Factors for College and Career Readiness; Imagined and Unconscious Career Barriers: A Challenge for Career Decision Making in the 21st Century; Work Traumas and Unanticipated Career Transitions; Career Development for Children: Addressing Barriers, Challenging Perceptions, and Building Hope; Turning Transition into Triumph: Applying Schlossberg’s Transition Model to Career Transition; Career Adaptability and Transition; A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Career Adaptability in Career Construction Theory; Career Decision Making and Career Adaptability; Counselling toward Career Adaptability: The Charge of a New Era; Advancing Social Justice;Social Justice: A Seminal and Enduring Career Counselling Ideal; Career Counselling with Underserved Populations: The Role of Cultural Diversity, Social Justice, and Advocacy; Using Dialogues to Foster Awareness and Self-Direction in Career Counselling; Playwright Meets Career Coach: Writing Dialogues to Promote Awareness and Self-Direction; Epilogue; The Next Horizon of Career Counselling: Ethics—The Philosophy of Living; Contributors.’