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Changing canoes in white water: Counseling women successful in careers they dislike

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Journal of Career Development

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Because of the complexity and the high stakes involved in counseling women successful in careers they dislike, a variety of techniques for assessment, goal setting, and intervention must be used in conjunction with more traditional career choice and work adjustment strategies. The counselor must, of course, be prepared to provide career information, utilize theories and techniques of career choice, and facilitate career decision-making. However, the counselor must also be prepared to borrow whatever techniques work to help a client who is deciding whether to leap from one canoe to another while paddling in white water.

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  1. Katherine Fee-Fulkerson
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Katherine Fee-Fulkerson, Ph.d. is with Academy Associates, 3001 Academy Rd., Durham, N.C. 27707. Address requests for reprints to the author.

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Fee-Fulkerson, K. Changing canoes in white water: Counseling women successful in careers they dislike. J Career Dev 14, 249–258 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01473912

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