Integrating Personal and Career Counseling to Promote Sustainable Development and Change

Jacobus Gideon Maree and Annamaria Di Fabio
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Jacobus Gideon Maree: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Annamaria Di Fabio: Department of Education and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-16

Abstract: This article reports on the integration of personal and career counseling to promote sustainable development and change. An explorative, descriptive, instrumental, single-case study approach was followed. Qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies were used to collect data, and an integrative career construction counseling intervention was conducted. The intervention comprised, first, elicitation of the participant’s micro- and meso-career-life stories; second, integration of these stories into a coherent macro-story, with the participant’s authorization of the narrative; and, third, co-construction by the participant and the counselor of action steps to facilitate action and forward movement. Integrating personal and career counseling helped to address the participants’ deep-seated personal needs while simultaneously addressing his career counseling needs. Longitudinal, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research is essential to determine the value and importance of integrating personal and career counseling. This study contributed to expanding the research on interventions that integrate personal and career counseling, promoting the development of sustainable career-life projects.

Keywords: personal counseling; career counseling; case study; career construction counseling; sustainable development and change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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