Career Models and Vocational Counseling

Recommended Prerequisites

Theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the 1st cycle of Psychology, as well as high level skills in the English language

Teaching Methods

Lectures, case studies’ discussion, reflection on career counseling models and intervention programmes.

Learning Outcomes

Identifying the main conceptual models of intervention in the life/career and their corresponding paradigms used in the analysis of the phenomena being described.

Identifying the main variables contributing to the process and to the result of career counseling.

Developing critical career intervention skills by applying the theoretical concepts to the description, understanding, explanation of vocational stories, as well as in the design of career intervention strategies (in real-life or simulated situations).

Helping students build the main career counseling skills associated with the sequential steps of the career counseling process.

Developing critical communication competencies, namely in the oral and written presentation of scientific-technical papers as well as in the conceptual analysis of different vocational stories.

Developing competencies related to the literature review and to the construction of applied intervention strategies.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

A. Main conceptual models of career behavior, development and intervention

1.Adjustment Person-Environment (the content of career);

2. Development and Narratives (career development and/or construction process);

3.The integration of the learning paradigm (both career content and process);

4. New paradigms (actional, systemic and those integrating the role played by chance events).

B. The European paradigm of lifelong and life-wide guidance and counseling: The role of guidance and counseling in the European memorandum on lifelong learning

C. Career service models encompassing different intervention levels

D. Process and outcome variables in vocational counseling and their relation with different theoretical models:

1. Career counseling steps: building of work alliance, initial assessment, definition of goals, in-depth assessment and process finalization;

2. Use of techniques and procedures

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Paula Barbas de Albuquerque Paixão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 40.0%
Resolution Problems: 60.0%

Bibliography

Arnkil, R., Spangar, T. & Vuorinen, R. (2017). Practitioners’ toolkit for PES building career guidance and lifelong learning. Luxembourg Publications Office: European Union.

Brown, S. D. & Lent, R. (2013). Career Development and Counseling – Putting Theory and Research to Work (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Maree, K. (Ed., 2017). Psychology of Career Adaptability, Employability and Resilience. Cham: Springer.

McMahon. M. (Ed., 2017). Career Counseling: Constructivist approaches (2nd ed.). NY: Routledge.

Savickas, M. (2011). Career Counseling (Series of Psychotherapy Theories). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Savickas, M. & Walsh, B. (Eds, 2015). The APA Handbook of Career Intervention. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Swanson, J. & Fouad, N. (2015). Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies (3rd Ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Walsh, B., Savickas, M. & Hartung, P. (Eds, 2013). Handbook of Vocational Psychology (4th ed.). NY: Routledge.