I agree with some of the other posts about the Wikispace. I feel like it is easier to meet and talk in person. I can learn how to use this technology but I think it is easier to meet together and discuss who should do what in each group.
As others have already commented, I cannot believe that career indecision used to be viewed as the person having a personality problem or that students that were undecided in college were shown to be less accomplished and less mature (Savickas, 1995). This is ridiculous. People who cannot decide on a career have so many options to choose from that it is too overwhelming. When college students are undecided, that shows that they realize how many majors they can choose from and how many careers there are out there. These students are taking their time to make a decision as to what major and what career will be best suited for them. Focusing on the person who is undecided and not the actual indecision is important for career counseling now (Savickas, 1995). This allows clients to subjectively explain their story of being undecided.
I agree with the constructivist counselors' view that career indecision is a sign of transformation in progress and that it is a normal experience that happens when people almost lose their place (Savickas, 1995). Before I quit my job working as an Ultrasound Technologist, I was in this transformation in progress. I hesitated awhile to decide if this was the right move for me to make. I looked over my life and I refined my life theme. I decided that I wanted to be able to help people by talking with them. I went back to school to be able to get my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and become a Licensed Professional Counselor.
Reading the case study helped me to understand the five steps of the life-theme counseling model (Savickas, 1995). However, I feel like this case study flowed more easily than it would with a real client. I think it would be more difficult to pick out a major based on the client narrating his/her life theme. The client in this case study had a secret desire to major in mathematics (Savickas, 1995). In real life, the client is seeing a career counselor because they are having trouble choosing a major. I think the client might not know what his/her interests are. The client would need to reveal a lot of stories that reveal his/her life theme. Furthermore, having a client say who his/her heroines and heroes are does not necessarily explain a client's life project. People choose heroes and heroines because they admire their personalities and actions but not necessarily that they want to do what the hero or heroine does.
References
Savickas, M. L. (1995). Constructivist counseling for career indecision. The Career Development Quarterly, 43(4), 363-373.
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