Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action
This article reports on the use of integrative career counselling to promote autobiographical reasoning in a purposively sampled gifted 16-year-old female learner with moratorium career identity status. I implemented an explanatory, mixed-methods (QUALITATIVE-quantitative; uppercase denoting the big...
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| description | This article reports on the use of integrative career counselling to promote autobiographical reasoning in a purposively sampled gifted 16-year-old female learner with moratorium career identity status. I implemented an explanatory, mixed-methods (QUALITATIVE-quantitative; uppercase denoting the bigger weighting given to the qualitative aspect) research design and used qualitative and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and strategies to construct data. The <i>Maree Career Matrix</i> (<i>MCM</i>) was used to gather the participant’s career interests (“scores”) quantitatively, and the <i>Career Interest Profile</i> (<i>CIP</i>) was used to elicit her micro-narratives (“stories”) qualitatively. An adapted version of thematic data analysis was used to analyse the data. The intervention promoted the participant’s (self-)reflection and reflexivity, transformed her tension into intention, led to an increase in her career options, and helped her revitalise her sense of meaning, purpose, and positivity. While the findings are encouraging, future (longitudinal) research is needed to establish the long-term influence of the intervention espoused here. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-18bb7b8593a34b4289d4e40232adabf22023-11-23T19:36:54ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022022-01-011227210.3390/educsci12020072Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and ActionJacobus G. Maree0Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South AfricaThis article reports on the use of integrative career counselling to promote autobiographical reasoning in a purposively sampled gifted 16-year-old female learner with moratorium career identity status. I implemented an explanatory, mixed-methods (QUALITATIVE-quantitative; uppercase denoting the bigger weighting given to the qualitative aspect) research design and used qualitative and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and quantitative career construction counselling techniques and methods and strategies to construct data. The <i>Maree Career Matrix</i> (<i>MCM</i>) was used to gather the participant’s career interests (“scores”) quantitatively, and the <i>Career Interest Profile</i> (<i>CIP</i>) was used to elicit her micro-narratives (“stories”) qualitatively. An adapted version of thematic data analysis was used to analyse the data. The intervention promoted the participant’s (self-)reflection and reflexivity, transformed her tension into intention, led to an increase in her career options, and helped her revitalise her sense of meaning, purpose, and positivity. While the findings are encouraging, future (longitudinal) research is needed to establish the long-term influence of the intervention espoused here.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/2/72integrative career construction counsellinggifted and talentedintervention studymoratorium career identity status<i>Career Interest Profile</i><i>Maree Career Matrix</i> |
| spellingShingle | Jacobus G. Maree Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action Education Sciences integrative career construction counselling gifted and talented intervention study moratorium career identity status <i>Career Interest Profile</i> <i>Maree Career Matrix</i> |
| title | Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action |
| title_full | Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action |
| title_fullStr | Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action |
| title_short | Using Integrative Career Construction Counselling to Promote Autobiographicity and Transform Tension into Intention and Action |
| title_sort | using integrative career construction counselling to promote autobiographicity and transform tension into intention and action |
| topic | integrative career construction counselling gifted and talented intervention study moratorium career identity status <i>Career Interest Profile</i> <i>Maree Career Matrix</i> |
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