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Article: Systemic influences on career development: assisting clients to tell their career stories.(Global Visions)(Usage of My System of Career Influences)
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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In recent years, constructivism has begun to assume a more central role in career theory and career counseling (Amundson, 2003; Peavy, 1997, 2004; Savickas, 2002). Inherent to constructivism is the recognition that individuals are active agents in the production of their careers. This fundamental theoretical underpinning has witnessed the client-counselor relationship becoming a more collaborative process, with the client taking a more active role in the process and the counselor facilitating narrative, storytelling, and discursive processes.
A major challenge for theory informed by constructivism is how to apply it in practice (Patton & McMahon, 2006b; Reid, ...