Transforming Career Stories Through Poetry: A Group-Based Career Counselling Intervention
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2020
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British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
Abstract
Contemplating the school to work transition in the insecure and unpredictable twenty-first century world of work can be anxiety inducing for college students. Consequently, college students may develop disempowered career stories in which they feel ill prepared to explore career prospects or engage with the world of work. This paper describes a career counselling intervention aimed at transforming the disempowered career stories of college students into more empowered versions. Grounded in career construction theory and designed as a group modality, the intervention employs poetry therapy to enhance the development of internally defined and motivated career stories among the group participants. Although this paper highlights the Kenyan context, the intervention itself can easily be adapted to other contexts
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Career counselling, careerconstruction theory, careerwriting, group modality, poetry therapy
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Wafula, E. (2020). Transforming career stories through poetry: a group-based career counselling intervention. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling