A Constructivist Model of Training for Career Counselors

Abstract

The purposes of this article are, first, to argue for the need to revise the conceptual basis of career counseling practice and, second, to outline a training approach consistent with the proposed revisions in career counseling practice. The author and associates are engaged in a career counselor training project (CCTP) at the University of Victoria which incorporates revised ideas about what career counseling is and how training for career counselors should be conducted in order to implement the revisions. The main goal of the CCTP is to develop an innovative approach to training career counselors who provide, or wish to provide, career and vocational counseling services to youth and young adults in diverse contexts. Funding for the CCTP was granted on the stipulation that the project produce innovations in career counseling practices and in the training required to produce those practices it was emphasized that the project not simply reproduce counseling practices and training methods already in use. The project team consists of four researchers, a research assistant, and four consultants all working at the University of Victoria. The

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