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Title: Counsellors' Personal Experience and Appraisal of My Career Chapter (Report)
Author : Australian Journal of Career Development
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Careers,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
Pages : * pages
Size : 270 KB

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This study investigated a qualitative career assessment and counselling procedure that was founded upon a constructivist, narrative approach to career counselling, My Career Chapter: A Dialogical Autobiography (McIlveen, 2006). Counsellors were trained in the use of the procedure and then applied it to themselves in an intensive workshop format. Intepretative phenomenological analysis was used for the research methodology. Counsellors were then interviewed to determine (a) their personal experience of My Career Chapter and (b) their appraisal of its alignment with a set of recommendations for the design and use of qualitative assessment procedures. Four superordinate clusters were derived from the data and these included my career chapter's relationship to theory, its administrative process, the counselling process, and the counselling relationship. The results indicated that My Career Chapter satisfied the recommendations for qualitative procedures. Possible amendments to the procedure were discussed. The My Career Chapter (MCC) procedure (McIlveen, 2006) was designed as a variant of the constructivist approach to career counselling and specifically for narrative career counselling. It was derived from the systems theory framework (STF; Patton & McMahon, 2006), the theory of career construction (Savickas, 2005), and the theory of dialogical self (Hermans & Kemipen, 1993). The composition of MCC approaches clients as if they are storytellers (McMahon, 2006) and facilitates a client writing a brief, career-related autobiography--a chapter of a client's career life. Unlike unstructured autobiographical techniques which offer the client limited directions, such as the life chapter exercise (Cochran, 1997), MCC entails a structured set of steps that guide clients in their writing and reflecting. Similar to another publication based upon the STF, the My System of Career Influences (MSCI) reflection activity (McMahon, Patton, & Watson, 2005), MCC is presented in the form of a printed workbook containing detailed instructions. It is delivered to clients as a homework exercise following on from initial counselling interviews.