1. education

Credible Experts
Incredible Training
Short Course in Career Counselling Connecting life themes to construct life portraits
Presented by the University of Pretoria
23–24 March 2015 (Phase One and Two)
(Day 1 and Phase 1 of a two-part series of workshops)
Using the Career Interest Profile (CIP) to Demonstrate
Career Construction Counselling: The Value of a
Combined Quantitative-Qualitative Approach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Career counselling in South Africa has traditionally favoured an objective
or positivist orientation. However, today’s rapidly changing career situation
demands a contemporary approach, which in turn, requires career
counsellors to take cognisance of the shift and to adapt their discipline to
accommodate these changes. Career counselling is no longer perceived
only as a linear process that is aimed at helping clients find ‘jobs’ for the
rest of their lives. A more up-to-date approach is rather needed to help
career counsellors and their clients respond effectively to global changes in
the world of work. It is our task, as counsellors, to equip our clients with the
coping mechanisms to deal with repeated career transitions.
To fulfil our task, we thus need to rethink our current theoretical and
conceptual frameworks for interpreting career-related behaviour and
planning our intervention in ever-changing contexts. While 20th century
approaches notably still have value for the 21st century career counselling
practice, the value of present-day career counselling theories lies primarily
in the ability to enable clients to focus on the bigger picture in their lives.
We need to facilitate personal authorship by viewing clients as authors of
their own career and life stories and as agents in their personal development
with an emphasis on their emotions and passions (Savickas, 2007; 2011).
Attendees will be introduced to the Career Interest Profile (CIP), a social
constructionist-orientated, postmodern instrument that is aimed at
facilitating career counselling by empowering clients to make informed
decisions about their career journeys, design successful lives, and make
fitting social contributions.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completing this course, candidates will be able to
•
critically evaluate the main approaches to career counselling, career
development, and career decision-making
•
understand 21st century developments in career counselling
•
understand that it is not helpful to weigh up one approach against
another, or to adopt an ‘either/or’ approach (i.e. using one approach to
the exclusion of the other)
•
endeavour the use of the best elements in both approaches to career
counselling, and
•
bridge the divide caused by minimal assessment in many contexts, the
exclusive use of tests in many other contexts and the use of a combined
assessment and career counselling strategy in yet other contexts.
CAREER-ENHANCING SHORT COURSES
COMPULSORY SOURCE
Maree, J.G. (2013). Counselling for career construction: Connecting life
themes to construct life portraits. Turning pain into hope. Rotterdam: Sense.
WHO SHOULD ENROL?
Psychologists, registered counsellors and social workers with a Masters
degree in Psychology
COURSE FEE (VAT incl.)
R3 500 per delegate (for both days)
Course notes and refreshments are included.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Registration with the HPCSA as a psychologist, psychometrist or
psychological counsellor.
COURSE STRUCTURE AND VENUE
This is the first of two comprehensive one-day courses presented at the
University of Pretoria.
ACCREDITATION
In terms of the Higher Education Act 101 of 1997, the University of Pretoria is
classified as a public higher education institution. The University of Pretoria
is accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) as a multi-purpose
public training provider in the higher education and training band.
Short courses and certificate programmes presented by the University of
Pretoria through CE at UP are not unit standard based and not credit-bearing
on the National Qualifications Framework. Delegates who successfully
complete a course and who comply with the relevant assessment criteria,
receive a certificate of successful completion from the University of Pretoria.
16 CEU (CPD) points have been approved for the full two days (four Ethics
CEU points); eight CEU points per day (two Ethics CEU points).
ASSESSMENT
Certificates and CPD points will only be awarded after completion of the
course and submission of an appropriate assignment.
25 March 2015.
www.ce.up.ac.za
Contact us: Tel: 012 434 2500 Fax: 012 434 2505 E-mail: info@ce.up.ac.za
For customised courses: E-mail quote@ce.up.ac.za for quotations on in-house training.
Short Course in Career Counselling Connecting life themes to construct life portraits
Presented by the University of Pretoria
24 – 25 March 2015 (Phase One and Two)
(Day 2 and Phase 2 of a two-part series of
workshops)
University of Pretoria.
Constructing a Life Portrait
In terms of the Higher Education Act 101 of 1997, the University of
Pretoria is classified as a public higher education institution. The University
of Pretoria is accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) as
a multi-purpose public training provider in the higher education and
training band.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Given the dramatic changes in the world of work and careers, a more
up-to-date approach is needed to enable career counsellors and their
clients to respond adequately to new developments in careers, career
choice and career execution. This course is intended to enable people
to cross new boundaries in life and within career counselling. Career
construction counselling, with its strong emphasis on the pivotal facet of
narrative career counselling, is a concept that integrates the process of
career construction and self-construction with the unique factors that play
a role in an individual’s life at a specific time and in a specific context, and
describe vocational behaviour and its development.
This one-day course (based on the work of Mark Savickas) elaborates on
how to promote ‘best practice’ in career counselling theory and practice,
and discusses the importance of reflection and reflexivity as integral
aspects of 21st century career counselling. It demonstrates the ways in
which the Career Construction Interview (CCI) can be used with or without
other auxiliary career counselling techniques and strategies to facilitate
career (construction) counselling by connecting the dots in the career
story (i.e. life themes) to construct life portraits under the guidance of
counsellors.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completing this course, candidates will be able to
•
understand and apply the theory of career construction counselling
•
understand and apply the notion of career and life story counselling
•
understand what is meant by a life portrait and a vision and mission
statement, and
•
apply Savickas’ eight-step technique using the Career Construction
Interview (CCI) (including the application of the three-anecdotes
technique) with or without other techniques to enable clients to
connect life themes for constructing life portraits under the guidance
of counsellors.
ACCREDITATION
Short courses and certificate programmes presented by the University
of Pretoria through CE at UP are not unit standard based and not
credit-bearing on the National Qualifications Framework. Delegates
who successfully complete a course and who comply with the relevant
assessment criteria, receive a certificate of successful completion from the
University of Pretoria.
16 CEU (CPD) points have been approved for the full two days (four Ethics
CEU points); eight CEU points per day (two Ethics CEU points).
ASSESSMENT
Certificates and CPD points will only be awarded after completion of the
course and submission of an appropriate assignment.
REGISTRATION & ENQUIRIES
Thandeka Sibiya
Tel: +27(0) 12 420 3343
Fax: +27(0) 86 5821 130
Email: thandeka.ce@up.ac.za
ENQUIRIES REGARDING CONTENT
Prof Kobus Maree
Tel: +27(0)12 420 2130
Cell: +27(0) 82 332 5065
Email: kobus.maree@up.ac.za
SPACE IS LIMITED – ENROL NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
COMPULSORY SOURCE
Maree, J.G. (2013). Counselling for career construction: Connecting life
themes to construct life portraits. Turning pain into hope. Rotterdam:
Sense.
WHO SHOULD ENROL?
Psychologists, registered counsellors and social workers with a Masters
degree in Psychology
COURSE FEE (VAT incl.)
R3 500 per delegate (for both days)
Course notes and refreshments are included.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Registration with the HPCSA as a psychologist, psychometrist or
psychological counsellor.
COURSE STRUCTURE AND VENUE
This is the second of two comprehensive one-day courses presented at the
CAREER-ENHANCING SHORT COURSES
www.ce.up.ac.za
Contact us: Tel: 012 434 2500 Fax: 012 434 2505 E-mail: info@ce.up.ac.za
For customised courses: E-mail quote@ce.up.ac.za for quotations on in-house training.