high anxiety: counseling the job-insecure client

✍ Scribed by Audrey L. Canaff; Wanda Wright

• Book ID: 102873477
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 584 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0787
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2004.tb00872.x

✦ Synopsis

In today's workplace, employees are faced with the potential of corporate downsizing, mergers and acquisitions, and job restructuring and relocation. These trends create a sense of job insecurity for the individual. Job insecurity affects the individual's life in a variety of ways, including emotional and psychological consequences, marital and family consequences, and organizational consequences. This article presents an overview of the effects of job insecurity and strategies that counselors can use in working with the job‐insecure client.