Adolescent Career Development in Urban-Residing Aboriginal Families in Canada

✍ Scribed by Sheila K. Marshall; Richard A. Young; Alison Stevens; Wayne Spence; Stewart Deyell; Adam Easterbrook; Martin Brokenleg

• Book ID: 102288202
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 59
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-4019
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2011.tb00975.x

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this study was to understand how urban‐residing Aboriginal adolescent–parent dyads (n = 11) jointly constructed and acted on goals and strategies with their social supports (n = 17) to facilitate the adolescents' career development. A modified protocol following the qualitative action‐project method was used. A discrete joint project was identified for each family. These joint projects can be clustered into 3 joint career development projects: (a) navigating toward a safe future, (b) negotiating school continuance, and (c) intergenerational continuity through tradition of care. A 4th project emerging from the data was family survival. Family survival projects supplanted participants' efforts to engage in career development projects.