Scheduled viewing: 03 February in Johannesburg and 07 October in Cape Town
By Mark L. Savickas, PhD
APA Psychotherapy Videos present distinguished psychologists demonstrating specific approaches to a wide range of patient problems. Designed for clinical training and continuing education, these videos were created to provide psychology students and practitioners with expert introductions to various therapeutic approaches and hands-on demonstrations of how to treat particular patient issues.
- Learn how experienced practitioners translate concepts into practice;
- Gain a first-hand look at what happens in a live session;
- Observe how therapists deal with specific critical incidents in treatment; and
- Demonstrate specific therapeutic interventions.
In Career Counselling, therapist Mark L. Savickas demonstrates his narrative counselling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client’s life as a “novel being written,” and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects. In this session, Dr. Savickas works with a woman who is graduating with a degree in school counselling. It becomes apparent during the session that this career does not fit her personality. Dr. Savickas uses a series of intriguing questions to help her understand why this career does not work for her and what type of work would make her happy. The client is visibly changed during this compelling session. This fascinating DVD features a voiceover option where viewers can choose to hear Dr. Savickas’s comments on the therapy session as it plays out.
The career construction theory of vocational development and career counselling, simply stated, holds that individuals build their careers by imposing meaning on vocational behaviour. Personality types and developmental transitions deal with what a person has done and how they have done it. However, they do not address the question of why they do what they do, nor do they focus on the spirit that animates nor the values that guide the manifold choices and adjustments that build a career.
Mark Savickas, PhD, is professor and chair in the behavioral sciences department at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and adjunct professor of counselor education at Kent State University. His 70 articles, 23 book chapters, and 500 presentations to professional groups have dealt with vocational behavior and career counseling. He is a member of the board of directors for the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance.
Duration: 1 hr 38 mins
