Showing posts with label career_constructive_approach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label career_constructive_approach. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
An Overwhelming Climb: The Complexities of Combining College, Full-Time Work, and Company Tuition Assistance
an article by Janelle L. Gagnon and Becky Wai-Ling Packard (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA) published in Journal of Career Development Volume 39 Number 6 (December 2012)
Abstract
This paper examines the complex experiences of full-time employed adults trying to climb the career ladder in their company by making use of company tuition assistance to earn their first college degree.
Guided by Savickas’ (2005) career construction theory, emphasising the personal agency and meaning-making within career development, we conducted phenomenological interviews with a purposive sample of eight men and women from six different companies using company tuition assistance while working full-time.
Participants held complex feelings toward dual roles of work and school including feeling overwhelmed and delayed in their progress as well as experiencing positive synergy between school and work roles.
Workplace features such as flexible scheduling and having an encouraging supervisor facilitated progress.
Implications for understanding and supporting the career development of full-time employed adults are discussed.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
A Critical Perspective of Contemporary Unemployment Policy and Practices
an article by David L. Blustein, Mary Beth Medvide and Carol M. Wan (Boston College, MA, USA) published in Journal of Career Development Volume 39 Number 4 (August 2012)
Abstract
This article explores the challenges of unemployment via the lens of critical psychology.
The conventional discourse on unemployment is critiqued, revealing ways in which conventional policies and practices serve to further marginalize the lives of the unemployed and impede the development of ethical, effective, and empathic individual interventions and structural changes.
In the practice realm, the importance of inclusion of mental health treatments in work-based interventions is highlighted based on the prevalence of psychological problems as a direct outcome of unemployment. New directions in research and public policy emerging from a critical analysis of existing are also outlined.
Abstract
This article explores the challenges of unemployment via the lens of critical psychology.
The conventional discourse on unemployment is critiqued, revealing ways in which conventional policies and practices serve to further marginalize the lives of the unemployed and impede the development of ethical, effective, and empathic individual interventions and structural changes.
In the practice realm, the importance of inclusion of mental health treatments in work-based interventions is highlighted based on the prevalence of psychological problems as a direct outcome of unemployment. New directions in research and public policy emerging from a critical analysis of existing are also outlined.
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