Connecting conscious knowledge with subconscious advice through career construction counselling to resolve career choice indecision

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dc.contributor.author Maree, J.G. (Kobus)
dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-25T05:49:10Z
dc.date.available 2021-03-25T05:49:10Z
dc.date.issued 2020-04-30
dc.description.abstract In this article I report on how conscious knowledge could be connected with subconscious advice through career construction counselling to resolve the career choice indecision of a postgraduate psychology student. The participant was purposively selected from a number of people attending a course in narrative career counselling. An explanatory, single case study design was adopted, and a qualitative approach was employed as the research framework. A career construction counselling intervention was used to generate data that was analysed according to the analytic style recommended by Savickas. The findings demonstrate the value of this kind of intervention in enabling the participant to reflect critically on key facets of his career-life story. Doing so revealed the difference between his conscious view of a possible future careerlife trajectory and his subconsciously regulated perspective on that trajectory. The findings also reveal the value of career construction counselling in helping the participant proceed from functioning as a social actor displaying motivated agency to furthering his career-life story as an autobiographical author. Future research should focus on larger groups of participants and include different assessment instruments to examine the longitudinal influence of the intervention described here, in group contexts with diverse groups of young people. en_ZA
dc.description.department Educational Psychology en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2021 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Maree, J.G. 2020, 'Connecting conscious knowledge with subconscious advice through career construction counselling to resolve career choice indecision', South African Journal of Education, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. S1-S13. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0256-0100 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2076-3433 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.15700/saje.v40ns1a1863
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79084
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Education Association of South Africa en_ZA
dc.rights © 2020, South African Journal of Education. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence. en_ZA
dc.subject Career choice indecision en_ZA
dc.subject Career construction counselling en_ZA
dc.subject Career construction interview en_ZA
dc.subject Career interest profile en_ZA
dc.subject Connecting conscious knowledge with subconscious advice en_ZA
dc.title Connecting conscious knowledge with subconscious advice through career construction counselling to resolve career choice indecision en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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