Comparison of Two Group Counseling Approaches to Enhancing Confidence in Planning Careers by Undecided Taiwanese College Women

Abstract

This is a report of research comparing two approaches to enhance the career confidence of undecided female college students. 30 women who requested enrollment in career counseling were assigned to two counseling groups (a cognitive reconstructing intervention group and a career decision-making skills training group) and one no-treatment control group based on time of request. After participating in the two career counseling groups for eight sessions in a month, the female college students rated their mean confidence as increased over that of the no-treatment group. Analysis indicated that the indecisive female college students benefitted from career group counseling with an emphasis on self-efficacy and that the cognitive reconstructing intervention was more effective.

Examination of a Group Counseling Model of Career Decision Making With College Students

“…Accordingly, a group career counseling component may be ideal to simultaneously convey career-related information and facilitate personal development for college students. In fact, several studies have suggested the effectiveness and efficiency of a group career counseling process (e.g., Clark, Severy, & Sawyer, 2004;Peng, 2000;Sullivan & Mahalik, 2000). Clark et al (2004) proposed a narrative approach to group career counseling.…”

A systematic review on career interventions for university students: Framework, effectiveness, and outcomes

“…The remaining articles indicate some heterogeneity. Although three rationales are noteworthy: the trait-and-factor theory mentioned in six (23%) articles (Behrens & Nauta, 2014;Chukwuedo et al, 2021;Dozier et al, 2015;McKay et al, 2005;Peng, 2001;Talib et al, 2015), the career construction theory also mentioned in six (23%) articles (Barclay & Stoltz, 2016a, 2016bDi Fabio & Maree, 2013;Pordelan et al, 2018;Sávoly & Dost, 2020;Teychenne et al, 2019), and the social cognitive theory mentioned in three (11.5%) articles (Chukwuedo et al, 2021;Lam & Santos, 2018;Peng, 2000).…”

“…For sessions' number and duration, 18 articles provide information (Chukwuedo et al, 2021;Di Fabio & Maree, 2013;Loureiro et al, 2013;Ogbuanya et al, 2018;Peng, 2000). The sessions range from 2 (Di Fabio & Maree, 2013) to 36 (Peng & Herr, 2000), lasting 40 min (Teychenne et al, 2019) to 480 min (Di Fabio & Maree, 2013).…”

“…Overall, the domains covered in sessions were the following: job opportunities/world of work information (Barthorpe & Hall, 2000;Lam & Santos, 2018;Teychenne et al, 2019), job search training (Barthorpe & Hall, 2000;Chukwuedo et al, 2021;Sávoly & Dost, 2020), skills awareness (Chukwuedo et al, 2021;McKay et al, 2005), application process training (Barthorpe & Hall, 2000;Talib et al, 2015;Teychenne et al, 2019), interview training (Sávoly & Dost, 2020;Talib et al, 2015;Teychenne et al, 2019), personal interests' exploration (Dozier et al, 2015;Lam & Santos, 2018;Peng, 2001;Thrift et al, 2012), career goals/aspirations exploration and setting (Loureiro et al, 2013;Maples & Luzzo, 2005;Pordelan et al, 2018;Sávoly & Dost, 2020), internship preparation (Schlesinger & Daley, 2016), adaptability training for uncertainty (Schlesinger & Daley, 2016), career decision-making training (Loureiro et al, 2013;Peng, 2000;Rowell et al, 2014), identify and reframe dysfunctional (Thrift et al, 2012) or negative career thoughts (Ogbuanya et al, 2018), define life roles (Sávoly & Dost, 2020), list possible career barriers (Sávoly & Dost, 2020), and reflect on personal career values (Maples & Luzzo, 2005;Peng, 2000Peng, , 2001.…”

“…Overall, the studies included adopting an evaluation system with pre-and post-testing (n = 21, 80.7%) (Chukwuedo et al, 2021;Loureiro et al, 2013;Ogbuanya et al, 2018;Peng, 2000), including a control (n = 15, 57.7%) (Dozier et al, 2015;McKay et al, 2005;Peng, 2001;Sávoly & Dost, 2020) or comparison group (n = 2, 7.7%) (Loureiro et al, 2013;Peng & Herr, 2000). Four studies (15.4%) report working only with one (Tirpak & Schlosser, 2013) & Stoltz, 2016a;Loureiro et al, 2013;Pordelan et al, 2018) and the Career Maturity Inventory-Revised (Talib et al, 2015).…”