Identifying and dealing with the adaptability needs of an unwed pregnant teenager
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Maree, J.G. (Kobus)
Hansen, Esta
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Elliot & Fitzpatrick
Abstract
This article describes a way of identifying and dealing with the adaptability needs of a pregnant teenager from a life
design perspective. The participant was selected purposively from among a group of undergraduate students at an
institution for unwed mothers. The intervention involved life design counselling and occurred over a period of three
months. Data on participant adaptability needs to facilitate life design counselling were gathered using the Career
Adapt-Abilities Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, as well as qualitative techniques (including the Career
Interest Profile, a genogram, a lifeline, a collage, idioms and role models). Following the intervention, the participant
revealed heightened self-insight with regard to her personal experiences, a ‘changed’ experience in respect of certain
aspects of her context and pro-active behaviour with regard to the challenges she was facing. The process of life design
can have a positive effect on an unwed pregnant teenager.
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Life design counselling, Career construction, Postmodern career facilitation, Unwed pregnant teenager
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Maree, JG & Hansen, E 2011, 'Identifying and dealing with the adaptability needs of an unwed pregnant teenager', Journal of Psychology in Africa 2011, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 211–228.