Innovative career construction counselling for a creative adolescent

ABSTRACT

This article reports on integrative career counselling provided to a creative young man selected purposefully. An explorative, descriptive, instrumental, single case-study approach was followed, and two recently developed questionnaires (one qualitative and one quantitative) were used to collect the data. A career construction counselling intervention comprising assessment and (meta-) reflective dialogues on the participant’s elicited career-life story was conducted. The intervention involved elicitation of the participant’s career-life story, authorisation of the story, and facilitation of action (forward movement). The participant’s need was met for “different” career counselling. The intervention helped the participant to celebrate and draw on his sense of creativity. Multiple case and quantitative studies are needed on the topic as well as more longitudinal research.

KEYWORDS:

• Innovation in career counselling
• creativity
• career construction counselling
• case study
• Maree Career Matrix
• Career Interest Profile

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Prof. Kobus Maree (DEd [Career Counselling]; PhD [Learning Facilitation in Mathematics]; DPhil [Psychology]) is a full Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His main research interests are career construction (counselling), life design (counselling), emotional-social intelligence and social responsibility, and learning facilitation in mathematics. Prof. Maree has authored or co­authored 100⁺ peer-reviewed articles and 55 books/ book chapters on career counselling, research and related topics since 2009.

ORCID

Jacobus Gideon Maree http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9492-8445