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Article: The Storied Approach: A Postmodern Perspective for Career Counseling. (Effective Techniques).
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
- Author:
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The author discusses the storied approach as a constructivist perspective on career counseling. The storied approach explores the client's world through story development as the client and counselor collaboratively co-construct, deconstruct, and construct life stories. Story development encompasses the client's past, present, and future life experiences that are related to life roles (i.e., family, student, worker, leisure, community). Assessment consists of both quantitative and qualitative data that are woven into the client's story as the symbols or meanings that call for further exploration.
The theory and practice of career counseling have been based on the ...