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Integrating Personal and Career Counseling to Promote Sustainable Development and Change

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  • Jacobus Gideon Maree

    (Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa)

  • Annamaria Di Fabio

    (Department of Education and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy)

Abstract

This article reports on the integration of personal and career counseling to promote sustainable development and change. An explorative, descriptive, instrumental, single-case study approach was followed. Qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies were used to collect data, and an integrative career construction counseling intervention was conducted. The intervention comprised, first, elicitation of the participant’s micro- and meso-career-life stories; second, integration of these stories into a coherent macro-story, with the participant’s authorization of the narrative; and, third, co-construction by the participant and the counselor of action steps to facilitate action and forward movement. Integrating personal and career counseling helped to address the participants’ deep-seated personal needs while simultaneously addressing his career counseling needs. Longitudinal, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research is essential to determine the value and importance of integrating personal and career counseling. This study contributed to expanding the research on interventions that integrate personal and career counseling, promoting the development of sustainable career-life projects.

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  • Jacobus Gideon Maree & Annamaria Di Fabio, 2018. "Integrating Personal and Career Counseling to Promote Sustainable Development and Change," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-16, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:10:y:2018:i:11:p:4176-:d:182470
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    1. Alessio Gori & Eleonora Topino & Andrea Svicher & Annamaria Di Fabio, 2022. "Towards Meaning in Life: A Path Analysis Exploring the Mediation of Career Adaptability in the Associations of Self-Esteem with Presence of Meaning and Search for Meaning," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-12, September.
    2. Katerina Argyropoulou & Nikolaos Mouratoglou & Alexandros Stamatios Antoniou & Katerina Mikedaki & Argyro Charokopaki, 2020. "Promoting Career Counselors’ Sustainable Career Development through the Group-based Life Construction Dialogue Intervention: “Constructing My Future Purposeful Life”," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-21, May.
    3. William E. Donald, 2022. "The Conceptualisation of Weather as a Career Metaphor," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-13, July.
    4. Daniela Converso & Ilaria Sottimano & Giorgia Molinengo & Barbara Loera, 2019. "The Unbearable Lightness of the Academic Work: The Positive and Negative Sides of Heavy Work Investment in a Sample of Italian University Professors and Researchers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-16, April.
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