Career and personal counseling: Comparing process and outcome

Abstract

Increasingly, there is a call to support the integration of career and personal counseling. However, few empirical studies have examined the overlap between these 2 domains. This study examined how career and personal counseling compared on both process and outcome measures. The participants included real clients who sought career and personal counseling at 3 college counseling centers in the U.S. The findings indicated that except in the area of expectations about counseling, there were no significant differences between career counseling and personal counseling. The implications for counseling practice and training are discussed.

Avaliação do processo de aconselhamento vocacional: revisão da literatura

“…Esta linha de estudo, apesar de escassa, tem permitido esclarecer os fatores comuns e as especificidades dos processos de intervenção psicológica vocacional e pessoal (Bedi, 2004;Gelso & Carter, 1985;Lewis, 2001).…”

The core conditions in counseling chronically undecided career decision-makers

“…Perhaps partly as a result of that, in our experience indecisive students usually arrive at career counseling services pressured for and expecting a quick answer to their major or career questions. Career counseling clients appear to possess misconceptions of the therapeutic process (Hinkelman & Luzzo, 2007;Lewis, 2001;Sampson, 2009). Career counselors may need to help students adjust their expectations of the career counseling process (Hinkelman & Luzzo, 2007;Multon, Heppner, Gysbers, Zook, & Ellis-Kalton, 2001).…”

“…Various authors suggest the need for recognition of the similarities in personal and career counseling (Bedi, 2004;Betz & Corning, 1993;Guindon & Smith, 2002;Lewis, 2001). Bedi (2004) recommended a greater emphasis and utilization of the therapeutic alliance in career counseling.…”

Revisión del sentido y de los contenidos de la orientación personal = Review of the sense and contents of personal counseling

“…Verdaderamente, existen sólidos argumentos y evidencias a favor del importante solapamiento entre la orientación personal y las otras dos áreas de orientación (académica y profesional), principalmente derivado del hecho de que toda intervención orientadora, independientemente de que esté preferentemente dirigida al desarrollo académico o al desarrollo vocacional/profesional, siempre incluye una atención permanente por parte del orientador a las dimensiones y necesidades personales de la persona que recibe esa orientación (véase Lewis, 2001). Sin embargo, reconocer esta visión integrada de la orientación educativa, no es óbice para reconocer también que la orientación personal tiene entidad en sí misma en tanto en cuanto su objetivo prioritario e inmediato es el desarrollo personal del orientando, mientras que para las otras dos vertientes de la orientación este objetivo es secundario.…”