Counseling and Action

Counseling and Action

Richard A. Young José F. Domene Ladislav Valach Editors Counseling and Action Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity 1 3

Editors Richard A. Young Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia Canada Ladislav Valach Berne Switzerland José F. Domene Faculty of Education University of New Brunswick Fredericton Canada ISBN 978-1-4939-0772-4 ISBN 978-1-4939-0773-1 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0773-1 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014940761 Springer New York 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgements We are indebted to the contributing authors of this book. Without their work, there would be no book. In this case of this volume, we are especially appreciative of the chapter authors for different reasons. In Part I, leading vocational and counseling psychologists accepted the challenge to address counseling and action from their own conceptual perspectives and with their own expertise. Thus, the major current themes in the field have been discussed in relation to counseling and action. In Part III, the chapter authors acted on a different challenge for which we are equally grateful. Here the authors had used contextual action theory in research or application and are able to address the relation of action and counseling from the perspective of having engaged in research and practice using this perspective. We also acknowledge the contribution in the form of an Infrastructure Grant from the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia that supported some of the technical and clerical work involved in the preparation of this volume. We are also indebted to Danika Overmars who did the initial copyediting of the text. We appreciated the support and guidance of Jennifer Hadley of Springer Science and Business Media. Finally, we are ultimately indebted to our students, colleagues, families, and friends who contributed to the work that inspired this volume in so many different and important ways. Richard A. Young Jose F. Domene Ladislav Valach v

Contents 1 Counseling and Action... 1 Richard A. Young, José F. Domene and Ladislav Valach Part I Action and Counseling Approaches and Issues 2 Designing Projects for Career Construction... 13 Mark L. Savickas 3 Career Counseling: Joint Contributions of Contextual Action Theory and the Systems Theory Framework... 33 Wendy Patton 4 Agentic Action in Context... 51 Mary Sue Richardson 5 Motivation and Volition in Vocational Psychology: An Action Control Perspective... 69 Jean-Paul Broonen 6 Processes of Identity Construction in Liquid Modernity: Actions, Emotions, Identifications, and Interpretations... 91 Jean Guichard and Jacques Pouyaud 7 Career and Identity Construction in Action: A Relational View... 115 Hanoch Flum 8 Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy: An Alternative Framework for Career Counseling... 135 Jeanne C. Watson vii

viii Contents Part II Counseling and Contextual Action Theory 9 Action in Counselling: A Contextual Action Theory Perspective... 151 José F. Domene, Ladislav Valach and Richard A. Young 10 Current Counseling Issues from the Perspective of Contextual Action Theory... 167 Ladislav Valach, Richard A. Young and José F. Domene Part III Applying Contextual Action Theory in Counseling Settings and Issues 11 Counseling Adolescents from an Action Theory Perspective... 197 Sheila K. Marshall, Margo Nelson, Kristen Goessling, Jane Chipman and Grant Charles 12 Counseling Intentional Addiction Recovery Grounded in Relationships and Social Meaning... 211 Matthew Graham and Chris Bitten 13 Adolescent Eating Disorders: A Contextual Action Theory Approach to Family-Based Counseling... 223 Krista Socholotiuk 14 Contextual Action Theory Framework in Counseling Families of Children with Disabilities... 239 Anat Zaidman-Zait and Deirdre Curle 15 The Action of Mindfulness in Counseling... 255 Brenda Yaari Dyer 16 A Contextual Action Theory Perspective on Self-Efficacy in Individual Counseling... 271 Carey Grayson Penner 17 Counseling Women: Feminist Perspectives and Contextual Action Theory... 285 Natalee E. Popadiuk 18 Suicide and Counseling for Suicidality... 295 Ladislav Valach and Richard A. Young

Contents ix Part IV Action and Counseling Practice 19 Counseling Processes and Procedures... 317 Richard A. Young, Ladislav Valach and José F. Domene Index... 337

Contributors Chris Bitten Vancouver, BC, Canada Jean-Paul Broonen Centre de Recherche en Psychologie du Travail et de la Consommation (CR PsyTC) Faculté des Sciences psychologiques et de l Education, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Grant Charles School of Social Work/Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Jane Chipman Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Deirdre Curle Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada José F. Domene Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada Brenda Yaari Dyer Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Hanoch Flum Department of Education, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Kristen Goessling Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Matthew Graham OrionHealth, Surrey, BC, Canada Jean Guichard Institut National d Etude du Travail et d Orientation Professionnelle, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France Sheila K. Marshall School of Social Work/Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada xi

xii Contributors Margo Nelson School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Wendy Patton Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia Carey Grayson Penner Columbia Bible College, Abbotsford, BC, Canada Natalee E. Popadiuk Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Jacques Pouyaud Research Centre on Psychology, Health and Quality of Life, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Mary Sue Richardson Department of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, New York, NY, USA Mark L. Savickas Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA Krista Socholotiuk Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Ladislav Valach Berne, Switzerland Jeanne C. Watson Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Richard A. Young Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Anat Zaidman-Zait Department of School Counseling and Special Education, Constantiner School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel