StoryTech: Exploring the Use of a Narrative Technique for Training Career Counselors

✍ Scribed by JUDITH D. EMMETT; ARTHUR M. HARKINS

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 697 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-0035
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1997.tb00531.x

✦ Synopsis

This article describes the use of a narrative technique, StoryTech, in a career counseling class. Student evaluations, comments, and recommendations for the use of StoryTech in a career counseling class are included.

For almost one century, career counselors have been seen as the experts who use scores from psychometric assessments to match persons with occupations. The trait and factor theory of Parsons (1 909) and the personality typology theory of Holland (1973) have emphasized this role of career counselor as matchmaker. However, recent developments in career theories and changing philosophies of education and counseling have suggested new paradigms for career and new roles for career counselors, with concomitant changes in counselor preparation.

The paradigms counselors use to think about career have expanded. The evolving career theory of Super (1990) has reflected a shift in a view of career from a onetime choice to a lifelong decision-making process. Miller-Tiedeman (1988) and Gelatt (1989)