Economic change in China: The need for a comprehensive career counselling approach

Canadian counselling psychologists' contributions to applied psychology.

“…Within the current context of rapidly changing labour market opportunities, increasing numbers of individuals are experiencing repeated transitions throughout their working lives, with the concomitant need for periodic or ongoing career-related redevelopment. Within the Canadian context, we are also working with individuals who have a wide variety of cultural perspectives that differentially inform their expectations about career decision-making processes and interventions (Borgen, Amundson, Cao, Enquan, & Xiaochong, 1994; Koert, Borgen, & Amundson, in press). As such, context transition theory, as described by Bridges (2003), Schlossberg (1984), Schlossberg and Robinson (1996), and Goodman, Schlossberg, & Anderson (2006), is useful in understanding people's experiences of their occupational, vocational, and career opportunities and challenges.…”