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Action– WhatItIsandWhyItMattersinCareerCounselling
RichardA.Young
Action- Whatitis...
Action refers to intentional goal-directed (but not necessarily rational) behavior.
It reflects how people understand their own and others’ behavior.
• DOING è ACTING è ACTION èACTION THEORY
Whyitismattersincareercounselling
• Career is composed of actions.
• Counselling is an action.
• Developments in psychology
• Integrates theory and practice
• We construct career by acting
ContextualActionTheory:TemporalStructure.
Actio
nSystem
s.
Long-termCAREER
e.g.,Workasasalawyerformanyyears
Mid-termPROJECT
e.g.,Completingandegreeinlaw
Short-termJOINTACTION
e.g.,Joiningafriendtostudyforanexam
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Levelsofaction
Goals,meaning
Functionalsteps
Consciousandunconsciousbehavior,resources,regulationprocesses
Thispresentation
• Careercounsellingpractice
• Action- Awayofunderstandingcareerandcounselling
• Careerresearch
Career Counselling Practice
Counsellor’s fivetasks
• Creatingandmaintainingtheworkingalliance• Identifyingprojectsandaction• Addressingproblematicactionsandprojects• Dealingwithemotionandemotionalmemory• Connectingwithdailylife
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TheCaseofDamia
• 23-year-oldfemalestudentfromMalaysia• ataCanadianuniversity• acceleratedEnglish-as-a-second-languageprogram• planstotransfertoanundergraduateprograminbusiness• askingherselfabouthersuitabilityforacareerinbusinessbecauseshesawherselfgettingangryandirritatedwithothersveryoften.
Thecounsellor,Ms.C
• aCanadianwomanofEuropeanheritage.• auniversitycounsellorfor12years.• ahumanistic,relationship-orientedapproach,• hasworkedcloselywithcontextualactiontheoryasthebasisforcounselling.
Importantfeatures
• Understanding counselling and guidance practice as goal-directed, intentional action
• Client’s life as composed of intentional actions, joint projects, and careers.
FirstCounsellingTask• anchoredintheculturalrulesandconventionsofpoliteness,goodmanners,empathyandrelatedactions.
• alliancedeepenswhenthecounsellorengagesinongoing,goal-directedcareers,projects,andactions-- co-constructedtosupportthegoal-directed,facilitator-drivenprocessoftheclient.
Creatingandmaintainingtheworkingalliance
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FirstcounsellingtaskintheCaseofDamia
• DescribingDamia’s experience
• YourcounsellingbeganbyMs.Cwelcomingyou
• feelcomfortable
• tellheraboutyourself,
• describingyourself
• listeningclosely,encouragingyou
• yourunderlyingconcernwastheangeryouwereexperiencing
• subsequentanxiety
• “Ican’tseemtodoanythingwithoutgettingmad.I’mafraidit’s
affectingmyschooling,andthekindofoccupationIwouldliketo
getinthefuture.”
• Thecounsellor’sperception
• tellthestoryofherlife
• askmorequestionsth
• culturaldifferences
• constructstories
• madeconnections
• presentedherselfasanagent
• whatwasworkingforherinthepresent.
Counsellor’ssecondtask• Providingaspaceforanextensiveclientnarrative
• Helpingtheclientframeitintermsofactionsandprojects
Identifyingprojectsandaction
Standardwaysofinterveningincareercounselling
• Personality • Skills
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NarrativeConstruction
� Retrospective � Prospective
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SecondcounsellingtaskintheCaseofDamia
• DescribingDamia’s experience
• identifiedtheimportantactionsandprojectsinyourlife
• identityproject
• anticipateanidentitycareer
• destructiveactionsthatareinterferingwiththese
projectsandcareers.
• “ThisangerI’mfeelingisgoingtodestroythegoodthings
thatarehappeninginmylife.”
• youcouldn’tunderstandwhyyougetsoangry
• Thecounsellor’sperception
• Ithoughtthatitwasveryhelpfulthatshe
couldseethesepatternsinherlife.She
resonatedwiththeideathatthesewere
herprojectsandcareers.
Counsellor’sthirdtask • Helpingresolveatthelevelanddomainthattheactionandprojectarechallenging
Addressingproblematicprojectsandactions
ThirdcounsellingtaskintheCaseofDamia
• DescribingDamia’s experience
• specificproject
• nottobesoangrywithothers
• beingangryseemednormal
• “Ican’tseemtodoanythingaboutthesefeelings.
Myfuturewillberuined,Iamdisappointedin
myself.”
• standingintheway
• Thecounsellor’sperception
• ItwasalmostlikeDamia hadtoomuchenergyforher
projects,thatthatenergywasrepresentativeofsome
unconsciousprocessthatmayhavebeoperatinginher.Her
projectandcareergoalsmadesensetoherbuttherewasa
disconnectbetweenthemandherangerandanxiety.Iwas
struckbywhatshesaidtheinsecondsession:“Allofthegood
thingsIaccomplishseemedtobewastedbecauseofmy
angertowardothers.”
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Counsellor’sfourthtask
Dealingwithemotionandemotionalmemory
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Meaningful goal-directed Actions
Motivated participation in projects generated by actor and/or others
Life-enhancing career
At the level of meaning, goals (steering processes)
- 1 Shared action goals
- 2 Relevant to projects and career
- 3 Joint, goal-directed projects
- 4 Cooperative - 5 Emotionally
sensitive - 6 Relevant to career
and identity
- 7 Long-term meaning of life - 8 Socially integrated - 9 Emotionally
satisfying
At the level of control processes
n 10 Serving identity and goal processes
n 11 Emotional and cognitive components
n 12 Mid-term challenging
n 13 Successful steps n 14 Positive feedback
in cooperative undertakings
n 15 Emotionally functional
n 16 Long-term challenging n 17 Allowing predictability and novelty n 18 Attendance to emotional issues
At the level of action elements ( unconscious
and conscious behavior, structural support,
resources) and regulation processes
n 19 Energy n 20 Cognitive and
emotional regulation
n 21 Skills n 22 Habits
n 23 Adequate structural support
n 24 Predictable and manageable time order
n 25 Adequate emotional resources
n 26 Long-term adequate time and sequence
n 27 Structural properties
n 28 Resources n 29 Functional
emotional regulation
Emotionisexpressedbehaviorally Emotionininternalprocesses
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Emotionatthelevelofmeaning(motivation)
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FourthcounsellingtaskintheCaseofDamia
• DescribingDamia’s experience
• clear toyouthatemotionsandemotionalreactions
werecentral
• identifyingothermorepositiveemotions
• connectionbetweenyourtroublingemotionsand
theactions
• toearlymemories
• retellyourstoryinwhichyourangerandanxiety
becamemoreunderstandable
• Thecounsellor’sperception
• Clearlyemotionswereanimportantpartof
counselling
• Didnotexpressverymuchanger
• showeduncertaintyandattimesanxiety
• identifiedpositiveemotions
Counsellor’sfifthtask •Whatistheconnectionbetweenwhatisaddressedincounsellingandtheclient’sdailylife?
• Constructingnarratives
• Invitingtheclienttomakesenseorprovideastructure
Connectingwithdailylife
FifthcounsellingtaskintheCaseofDamia
• DescribingDamia’s experience
• stronglink
• betweentheangerandanxiety
• andlongertermsplans
• abletoactpositivelytoreachgoalsthatyou
have.
• Thecounsellor’sperception
• Didmuchmoreinourcounselling
• howemotionswork
• identifyemotionsastheydevelopincertainactions
• tobeawareofthem
• toregulatethem
• addresssomeoftheresidualfeelings
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With regard to practice � 1. We consider counselling as joint
action.
� 2. We encourage joint action with others in counselling.
� 3. We help clients identify actual, present projects (based on goals, internal processes, and behaviour).
More practice
• 4. We incorporate narrative as a way of understanding.
• 5. We encourage journal writing.
• 6. We use regular follow-up by phone.
• 7. We review changes with a view to stabilizing them toward present/emerging projects.
• 8. Other …
Contextual Action Theory
Contextualactiontheory
• aconceptualapproachtogoal-directedbehaviourdevelopedinvocationalpsychology,counselling,mentalhealth,andhumandevelopment.
DOING è ACTING è ACTION èACTION THEORY
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Contextual Action Theory
Action Project Career
Goals/meaning
Functionalsteps
Consciousandunconsciousbehavior,resources,skills,habits
Identifying actions and projects
• “Becausemythoughtswereathomeonhowtokeepthefamilypeace,Ididnotconcentrateatschool,whichmadememissbeingpromoted.…Attheapprenticeship,mysuperiorexpectedthebestresultsfrommewhichIfailedtodeliver.Hetoldmehewasdisappointedandsincethentreatedmeasanyotherworker.”
Valach,L.&Young,R.A.(2013).ThecasestudyoftherapywithaSwisswoman.InS.Poyrazli &C.E.Thompson(Eds.),Internationalcasestudiesinmentalhealth. ThousandOaks,CA:Sage.
Example
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Career Research Counseling for the transition to adulthood as
joint, goal-directed action
Young, R. A., Marshall, S. K., Foulkes, K., Haber, C., Lee, C. S. M., Penner, C., & Rostram, H.
2011, volume 79, pp. 325-333. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2011.02.005
FindingsThreeprojectswereidentifiedinthesesessions:relationship,identity,educational-vocational.
Identity
Relationship
Education-vocation
RelationshipProjectsCounsellor-client Clientinoutsidelife
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Educational-vocationalProjectEducationalandvocationalconcernswereoftenthepresentingproblem:
“Maybescienceisjustnotmything,butIdon’twanttochangemymajor.”
“I’mlost,Ican’tgetmyfeetfirmlyplantedontheground.”
Integrationofprojects
Educational-vocational “I’mlost,Ican’t
getmyfeetfirmlyplantedontheground.”“Ireallydon’tknowwheretofromhere[myinterestandtraininginphotography].”
Relatio
nal Referstosimilar
feelingsaboutboyfriend Id
entity “I’mreallynot
surewhatI’mallaboutalotofthetime/Iwanttofiguremyselfoutalittlemore.”
Integrationofprojects
“Ithoughtaboutjustthefutureandjobandeverything.”
“Iwantedto- Idon’tknow- rewritemypersonality”
Client:“Whatdoyouexpectmetosay?”Counsellor:“I’mnotexpectinganything.I’mjustlikeyou,I’mjust
waiting.”
Clientreflectingonviewinghercounsellingsession• “IwasthinkingthatIshouldstoptalkingaboutworkonceagainandstartfocusingonmemore,becauseIthoughtthat,youknow,thesessionswouldbemoreusefulformeifItalkedaboutmemore,butespeciallyatthatmomentIwas,Istartedtalkingaboutworkandspecificclients…Iwasthinking,‘Yeah,Ishouldstoptalkingaboutworkandstarttalkingaboutmemore.’”
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AdolescentCareerDevelopmentinUrban-ResidingAboriginalFamiliesinCanada
SheilaK.Marshall,RichardA.Young,AlisonStevens,WayneSpence,StewartDeyell,AdamEasterbrook,andMartinBrokenleg
December2011,Volume59,Number6
Cultureasfluidanddynamic
Situatingcareerwithin
culture
Opentoparticipantsexperiencesandactions
Naïveobservations
inlocalcommunities
Projectsovertime
Feedbackfrom
participants
Young,R.A.,Marshall,S.K.,&Valach,L.(2007).Makingcareertheoriesmoreculturallysensitive:Implicationsforcounseling.CareerDevelopmentQuarterly,56,4-18.
Jointprojects–Aboriginalyouthandfamilies
Navigatingtowardasafe
future
Negotiatingschool
continuance
Intergenerationalcontinuity
throughtraditionofcare
Familysurvival
Keytaskforcounsellors…
• How to best identify, intervene in and support the joint projects thatclients are engaged in that complements the ecological validity ofthese projects.