This article reports on the value of career construction counselling (integrating qualitative and quantitative strategies and associated techniques) for a young person. The participant was purposefully selected from a number of people who had sought career counselling in a private practice context. An intrinsic, single-case study design was adopted using a qualitative paradigm, and an integrated, qualitative + quantitative approach was implemented as the research framework. Self- and career construction techniques were used to gather data. The findings demonstrate the importance of promoting career development and life design in the early years and underscore the importance of completing developmental tasks proficiently in childhood to motivate young people to set and realize specific goals, make meaning in their lives, and pursue purpose. Metatheoretical career construction theory (CCT), which blends the psychodynamic (narrative or storied; eliciting people’s multiple micro-stories to help them reflect on their autobiographies and identify their major life themes), differential (testing people to see how they differ and find an ‘optimal’ fit between their traits and certain work environments), and developmental (using educational strategies and methods to advance people’s ‘adjustment
This article reports on the value of career construction counselling (integrating qualitative and quantitative strategies and associated techniques) for a young person. The participant was purposefully selected from a number of people who had sought career counselling in a private practice context. An intrinsic, single-case study design was adopted using a qualitative paradigm, and an integrated, qualitative + quantitative approach was implemented as the research framework. Self- and career construction techniques were used to gather data. The findings demonstrate the importance of promoting career development and life design in the early years and underscore the importance of completing developmental tasks proficiently in childhood to motivate young people to set and realize specific goals, make meaning in their lives, and pursue purpose. Metatheoretical career construction theory (CCT), which blends the psychodynamic (narrative or storied; eliciting people’s multiple micro-stories to help them reflect on their autobiographies and identify their major life themes), differential (testing people to see how they differ and find an ‘optimal’ fit between their traits and certain work environments), and developmental (using educational strategies and methods to advance people’s ‘adjustment’) approaches, is relevant in any discussion of early childhood development.
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