NARRATIVE VOCATIONAL COUNSELLING
NARRATIVE VOCATIONAL COUNSELLING

Summary/Abstract: This study presents a view of the new constructivist approach to career counselling by specifically addressing a predominant form of that approach— narrative career counselling. The paper describes features of narrative career counselling and presents prototypical examples of practice. Narrative career counselling facilitates individuals’ self-reflection and elaboration of self-concepts toward an enhanced self-understanding and personal meaning. This approach highlights the essentially meaning-oriented work of career counselling. Narrative career counselling can be conceived of as a counselling process in which the client is supported in creating a personal story (or stories) that holistically accounts for his or her life and career, and enables the person to make meaningfully informed career-decisions and actions.

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