Career Choice and Development

well-founded whole to serve as a basis for further refinements, extensions, and revisions” (pp. vii–viii). A coherent narrative ...

(that is, dealing with objects) and symbolic (that is, dealing with signs and symbols). The Role of Emotion Kidd (1998) makes a ...

1998). Considering the importance of these processes for individ- ual activity and for career and project maintenance and develo ...

tion serves to energize and motivate action. Specific career actions and projects can be frustrating, difficult, or dull; one mu ...

Bronfenbrenner (1979, 1993) identifies three conditions of eco- logically valid research. These conditions are not just related ...

monocultural perspective. Although recognition of the importance of multiculturalism is on the rise, they note that the multicul ...

than have them subsumed under male assumptions. Some of the lit- erature on women’s career development has focused on structural ...

long term but the short- and midterm as well. For example, project is increasingly being recognized as a heuristic construct tha ...

Young, Valach et al., 1997; Young, Valach, Ball et al., 2001). We have been able to identify, monitor, and subsequently describe ...

the proposition that we take part in processes relevant in the par- ticipants’ everyday lives. The results illustrate how a numb ...

Finally, research from a contextual, if not a contextualist, per- spective can take a variety of forms, as the discussion earlie ...

should look to their clients’ everyday experiences and constructs in formulating their own understanding and practice of counsel ...

and to the immediate action between the counselor and client. The counselor can approach interpretation by Becoming aware of cl ...

narrative may be as problematic to a client as one that lacks co- herence. For example, a story that has a client becoming a res ...

negotiations with counselors. Counselors should “interpret” them as narratives about clients’ lives and as narratives that are f ...

Joint Action The notion of joint action between counselor and client contrasts with the way counselor and client are regarded se ...

and direction needed for the joint action between them; joint ac- tion is also energized by the communication between them. It i ...

Case Studies Both E and K, college students in the early adult stage of life (see Chapter Two), are involved in individual and j ...

The Case of E E engages in a range of actions. Not only is she a sophomore at the university, she has had summer jobs, stays in ...

that she cannot differentiate her own goals as distinct from the fam- ily project. Indeed, her goals for counseling, which seem ...