Therapeutic collaboration in career construction counseling: case studies of an integrative model

The mapping of therapeutic collaboration throughout counseling deepens our understanding of how the helping relationship fosters client change. To better understand the process of career construction counseling (CCC), we analyzed the therapeutic collaboration on six successful face-to-face cases. Th...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2022-02, Vol.12, p.1-16
Main Authors: Silva, Filipa, Taveira, Maria do Céu, Cardoso, Paulo, Ribeiro, Eugénia, Savickas, Mark L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Career construction
Career counseling
Career narrative
Case study
Change process
Coding system
Good outcome
Psychology
Social Sciences
Therapeutic collaboration
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Summary:The mapping of therapeutic collaboration throughout counseling deepens our understanding of how the helping relationship fosters client change. To better understand the process of career construction counseling (CCC), we analyzed the therapeutic collaboration on six successful face-to-face cases. The participants were six Portuguese adults, five women and one man, real clients of a career counseling service, and four psychologists, three female and one male trained in the career intervention model. The participants completed demographic questions and measures of career certainty, vocational identity, career indecision, and psychological functioning. The Therapeutic Collaboration Coding System was used to track collaboration throughout all interactive episodes. The clinical significance of the intervention was calculated by analyzing pre-post-test statistical differences for each case, with the Reliable Change Index and Z score. The findings evidenced a pattern of therapeutic collaboration evolution for good outcome cases. Based on this pattern, we propose a model of process-outcome evolution for the three phases of CCC. This research was conducted at the Psychology Research Centre (UID/PSI/01662/2013), University of Minho. It was supported in part by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, and FEDER through COMPETE2020 under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER007653).
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.784854