Counseling and Action
Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity
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The Transition of Young Adult Newcomers to Canada: Supporting Participant Joint Projects
As part of a larger study of supportive interventions for young adult newcomers to Canada, this article describes the relevant joint, goal-directed projects in which participants engaged pertinent to their tra...
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Thematic Integration of Child and Youth Mental Health Practice in Counseling Psychology
Areas of knowledge and core values within the field of counseling psychology have been infused into each of the chapters within the counseling psychology section of this book. Therefore, even though Dik and co...
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Career Counselling for Emerging Adults Based on Goal-Directed Action: An Innovative Approach to Theory, Research, and Practice
In this chapter, we discuss the ways in which Contextual Action Theory can be used to understand career development during emerging adulthood, and to address career concerns that commonly arise during this pha...
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Counseling and Action
In this chapter, action is proposed as central to counseling. The issue of counseling and action is introduced by contrasting traditional views of action in the counseling psychology literature with the place ...
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Current Counseling Issues from the Perspective of Contextual Action Theory
The first chapter of this volume outlined a number of relevant issues currently considered in counseling theory and practice. In Chaps. 2–8, several authors presented their understanding of and responses to th...
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Action in Counselling: A Contextual Action Theory Perspective
Young and colleagues’ contextual action theory (CAT) provides an integrated framework for understanding action across the contexts of daily life, including the contexts of counselling practice. This chapter be...
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Counseling Processes and Procedures
In this chapter, contextual action theory (CAT) is identified as an integrative rather than differentiated perspective for counseling practice. This integration of CAT with other counseling approaches and proc...
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Identity
Although identity is seen as important to all phases of life, it has long been understood as an integral aspect of psychosocial development during adolescence and the transition to adulthood (e.g., Erikson, 19...
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Using the Self-Confrontation Procedure in Counseling
Throughout this book, we rely extensively on the self-confrontation interview to understand the actions of youth, their parents, counselors, and other involved in the transition process. The research participa...
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Transition to Adulthood as Goal-Directed Action
One of the many poignant scenes in Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, is the conversation between Happy and his mother, Linda. Linda is trying to convince her son that he has to commit to something in lif...
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Transition to Adulthood: Introduction
The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, as well as a number of other psychosocial transformations. ...
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Work
Work has always been the focus of career counseling and vocational psychology. However, the place of work in people’s lives has emerged as a central construct within these fields only recently (Blustein, 2006; Ri...
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Romantic Relationships
In contemporary society, many individuals begin dating or engaging in other forms of romantic relationships in adolescence and enter adulthood with some experience in this area of life (e.g., Abraham, 2002; Ca...
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Suicide in the Context of the Transition to Adulthood
For the majority of young people and their parents, the time during which youth make the transition to adulthood might prove to be, though strenuous and challenging, an enriching and happy experience. However,...
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Studying Transition Processes
The way one conceptualizes the transition to adulthood suggests the methods that one would use to study it. For example, sociology’s life-course approach emphasizes how socially structured opportunities and li...
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Emotion and the Transition to Adulthood
Emotions and emotional processes play an integral part in the transition to adulthood. Jointly creating, constructing, and negotiating the transition to adulthood includes many emotionally laden challenges as ...
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Family
Family is one of the key loci of transition to adulthood projects. It is both a focus of transition, that is, develo** new relationships between family members as one becomes an adult, and a support though w...
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Culture
Research on the transition to adulthood shows that social and economic conditions contribute to different pathways to adulthood. These conditions, although experienced individually, exist and operate across in...
