Early 20th‐Century Career Counseling for Women: Contemporary Practice and Research Implications

Alshabani, Nuha; Soto, Samsara

doi:10.1002/cdq.12214

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“…These factors are interrelated and range from broad socio-political positions such as neoliberalism to the much more time focussed effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some of these developments are of more recent origin, career has always been subject to changing local and global factors as well as how the term itself is understood in different contexts and cultures (e.g., Abkhezr & McMahon, 2017;Alshabani & Soto, 2020;Chen, 2021;Flores et al, 2019;Nguyen et al, 2018;Wada et al, 2019). Occupational career is not a fixed entity, nor is our understanding of it.…”

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Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Young

Chi

2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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The problems and challenges people in both Eastern and Western societies face regarding life work and career are complex and in flux. These issues range from a neoliberal socio-economic climate to the increasing prevalence of the gig economy and part-time work. These problems, compounded by racism and social injustice, threaten the existential and moral commitment required not only for sustained work involvement but also for constructing a meaningful life. The neoliberal agenda appears to give pre-eminence to individual agency. However, at the same time, it challenges the joint collaborative and cooperative requirements needed to construct meaningful long-term carreers. These challenges to long-term career are elaborated. In this article, we address this problem by examining the conceptual link between short-term, goaldirected actions, mid-term projects and long-term career, in an approach known as contextual action theory. Essentially, this framework suggests that long-term career is constructed through in-the-moment goal-directed actions and mid-term projects, both of which require significant components to contribute to a meaningful and motivated career. This article provides the opportunity to examine the characteristics of contextual action theory that contribute to addressing the challenges to long term career, including goals as explanatory, relation to the other, the process of change, culture, and social justice. These characteristics are illustrated by referring to current research and practice that have emerged from contextual action theory.

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Section: Significant Challenges and Changes For Careermentioning

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Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Young

Chi

2022

Swiss Psychology Open

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“…Good career choice in turn can boost their economic success, social standing, and quality of life. Biased career counseling however may restrict occupational opportunities and stunt the career development of disadvantaged populations (e.g., girls and minorities) Alshabani and Soto (2020).…”

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Fair Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Information Networks

Zeng

Islam

Keya

et al. 2021

ICWSM

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Recently, much attention has been paid to the societal impact of AI, especially concerns regarding its fairness. A growing body of research has identified unfair AI systems and proposed methods to debias them, yet many challenges remain. Representation learning methods for Heterogeneous Information Networks (HINs), fundamental building blocks used in complex network mining, have socially consequential applications such as automated career counseling, but there have been few attempts to ensure that it will not encode or amplify harmful biases, e.g. sexism in the job market. To address this gap, we propose a comprehensive set of de-biasing methods for fair HINs representation learning, including sampling-based, projection-based, and graph neural networks (GNNs)-based techniques. We systematically study the behavior of these algorithms, especially their capability in balancing the trade-off between fairness and prediction accuracy. We evaluate the performance of the proposed methods in an automated career counseling application where we mitigate gender bias in career recommendation. Based on the evaluation results on two datasets, we identify the most effective fair HINs representation learning techniques under different conditions.

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vocational Well-Being of Women in Counseling Psychology

Alshabani

Wolfe

Burke

et al. 2023

Journal of Mental Health Counseling

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Navigating employment and familial obligations has challenged women since their mass entry into public work. The demands of competing obligations can negatively impact women’s personal and vocational well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenge of balancing work and family roles as women faced expanded physical, caretaking, and mental labor, often resulting in role strain. This study explored how women in counseling psychology experienced role strain and its resulting impact on vocational well-being during the pandemic. Demand for counseling psychology services rose during the pandemic, potentially increasing role strain. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, we conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with six counseling psychologists who identified as women, employed full-time, and mothers to at least one child aged 12 or younger. Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, and five themes emerged: gender expectations, multiple roles, vocational well-being, consequences, and profession differences. Implications for practitioners working with mothers in these roles are provided.

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Early 20th‐Century Career Counseling for Women: Contemporary Practice and Research Implications

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Facilitating Life-Enhancing Career in the Context of Significant Social Challenges and Changes: The Perspective of Goal-Directed Action

Fair Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Information Networks

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vocational Well-Being of Women in Counseling Psychology

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