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Direct linkSavickas, Mark L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
A new paradigm is implicit within the constructivist and narrative methods for career intervention that have emerged in the 21st century. This article makes that general pattern explicit by abstracting its key elements from the specific instances that substantiate the new conceptual model. The paradigm for life design interventions constructs…
Descriptors: Intervention, Models, Constructivism (Learning), Career Development
Savickas, Mark L. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2011
When individuals seek career counseling, they have stories to tell about their working lives. The aim of career construction theory is to be comprehensive in encouraging employment counselors to listen for a client's career story from the perspectives of actor, agent, and author. Taking multiple perspectives on career stories enables counselors to…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Effectiveness
Download full textSavickas, Mark L. – 1990
Temporal experience structures how people conceptualize their careers and enact vocational behavior. Optimal career success and satisfaction follow from an experience of time characterized by an orientation to a future that is densely populated with events clearly connected to present behavior. Career interventions may empower individuals by…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Theories, Intervention, Time Perspective
Savickas, Mark L. – 1990
Career maturity denotes degree of readiness to make realistic career choices. Clients below a certain threshold of readiness lack the life experiences and personal inclinations needed to make fitting occupational choices. To increase their readiness, a counselor may help these clients develop the decisional attitudes and learn the choice concepts…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Counseling Theories, Readiness, Vocational Maturity
Peer reviewedSavickas, Mark L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1997
Examines the origin and current status of lifespan, life-space theory and proposes one way in which to integrate its three segments. Discusses a functionalist strategy for theory construction and the outcomes and consequences of this strategy. Discusses future directions for theory development, such as career adaptability and planful attitudes.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
Peer reviewedWilliams, Caitlin P.; Savickas, Mark L. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1990
Compared employed adults' (N=136) career concerns to vocational development tasks in Super's model of maintenance career stage. Found results indicated adaptation not maturation propelled development. Results support posited renewal task which deals with midlife reassessment of career choice and commitment. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Counseling Theories, Decision Making
