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Mapping A Personal Career Theory

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Exploring New Horizons in Career Counselling

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In this chapter, I initially consider the challenges facing career counselling and assessment in the present times. This is followed by a broad overview of how the discipline of career psychology has responded to these challenges to date and some generic themes that have emerged from such responses. I then describe a specific example of the development and application of a qualitative career counselling and assessment reflective process for adults.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth

    Mark Watson

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  1. University of Pretoria, South Africa

    Kobus Maree

  2. University of Florence, Italy

    Annamaria Di Fabio

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Watson, M. (2015). Mapping A Personal Career Theory. In: Maree, K., Fabio, A.D. (eds) Exploring New Horizons in Career Counselling. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-154-0_4

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