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Career Counselling: A Pratitioner's Approach
Facilitators
Hannah Azizollah and Jonathan Middleburgh
Who should attend
This workshop is intended both for those who have no experience of career counselling and those who have some experience and want to build on their skills. In previous years the workshop has been attended by a wide range of participants: practitioners-in-training, psychologists with no experience of career counselling and experienced career counsellors. All have reported that the workshop was of value to them. No detailed knowledge of career counselling is necessary to take part in the workshop.
Workshop overview
The workshop is a one-day career-counselling workshop, which will highlight a general approach that delegates can use. In addition, delegates will be able to practice counselling skills and engage in discussions to learn from each other and develop a network.
Aims of the workshop
- To give participants an overview of a general approach to career counselling.
- To allow participants to practise some specific aspects of career counselling.
- To give participants some broader perspectives and ideas in relation to career counselling (rather than ‘teaching’ a prescriptive approach to career counselling).
- To allow participants to share their own experience of career counselling within a supportive workshop environment and learn from the discussion and the experiences of other practitioners.
The workshop will adopt a highly practical approach in fulfilling the above aims.
Projected outcomes and benefits of attending
- Awareness of a basic career counselling model.
- Understanding of the principal issues to cover at each stage of that model.
- Awareness of some of the tools and techniques available for use during the counselling process, including appropriate psychometric testing.
- Development of practitioner skills in a range of the above techniques.
- Development of practitioner insight from discussion with other participants and the observation of role modelling.
Psychological theory underpinning the workshop
Several theorists propose a 3 stage model of career counselling, but the shape of these various models is broadly similar. For example, Nathan and Hill (1992) propose a 3 stage model of career counselling: (1) screening, contracting, exploring; (2) enabling client’s understanding (including consideration of ‘who am I?’, ‘where am I now?’, ‘what do I want?’); and (3) Actions and endings (including action planning). We will briefly explore this and similar models (e.g. Ali and Graham, 1996; Egan, 2002), which help the practitioner, map out an appropriate arc for the counselling process.
We will also deal with psychological theory that seeks to describe the nature of career counselling. We will outline the prevailing modern approach (see e.g. Nathan and Hill, 1992; Kidd, 2006), which sees career counselling as a process enabling people to recognise and utilise their resources to make career-related decisions and manage career-related problems. We will contrast this approach with the more outdated approach of an expert advising on appropriate career choice (see e.g. Parsons, 1909).
Pre/post work required
N/A
Date and venue
25 April 2007, 9.30 - 17.00
The British Psychological Society, 30 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4UE
Facilitators details
Hannah Azizollah obtained her MSc at the University of Hull in 1978 and has since then worked as an Occupational Psychologist. She spent the first 15 years of her career at the Post Office and then BT as an in-house consultant. Since 1994 Hannah has been working as an independent practitioner for a wide range of clients - large organisations in the public and private sectors, small businesses and many individuals. Much of the work has involved aspects of selection, assessment and development for individuals, teams and whole organisations.
Hannah has a wide range of relevant experience in the area of career counselling and one-to-one coaching both in-house and with private clients (students and adults). For example, she has recently set up a career counselling service targeted specifically at school and university students.
Hannah and Jonathan are experienced at delivering and facilitating workshops. Together they have successfully run this workshop for the Learning a Living programme in 2005 & 2006 and feedback was highly complimentary.
After graduating in Law from Oxford University in 1988 Jonathan Middleburgh taught Law in Chicago, New Zealand and at Oxford. He then practised for 12 years as a Barrister specialising in commercial and employment litigation.
Jonathan became increasingly dissatisfied with his career at the Bar and as a result pursued an interest in psychology. He took the BPS’s Qualifying Examination while practising at the Bar and left the Bar in 2002. Since leaving the Bar Jonathan has obtained the Postgraduate Certificate in Occupational Psychology and undertaken a wide variety of work as a Practitioner-in-Training, primarily focused around career counselling and one-to-one coaching. He has also developed and co-facilitated a number of workshops (including workshops in career counselling and process consultation) and set up a career counselling service targeted at school and university students.
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