Effectiveness of Career Counseling and the Impact of the Working Alliance

Autor/inn/en	Masdonati, Jonas; Massoudi, Koorosh; Rossier, Jerome
Titel	Effectiveness of Career Counseling and the Impact of the Working Alliance
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Development, 36 (2009) 2, S.183-203 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0894-8453
DOI	10.1177/0894845309340798
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Life Satisfaction; Program Effectiveness; Foreign Countries; Career Counseling; Questionnaires; Likert Scales; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Participant Satisfaction; Counseling Services; Pretests Posttests; Social Indicators; Client Characteristics (Human Services); Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensvollendung; Ausland; Fragebogen; Likert-Skala; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Schweiz
Abstract	This study analyzes the role of the working alliance on the life satisfaction and career decision difficulties of clients participating in career counseling in Switzerland. The study also compares these career counseling clients to a group of students who did not seek counseling, to explore the overall effectiveness of a face-to-face career counseling intervention, using a pre-post design. Results indicated that the working alliance was positively associated with clients' satisfaction with the intervention and with the final level of their life satisfaction. Working alliance was also negatively associated with the final levels of career decision difficulties. Moreover, clients' career decision difficulties significantly decreased and their life satisfaction increased throughout the intervention. These findings suggest that working alliance represents an important variable to better understand career interventions' underlying mechanisms. Moreover, face-to-face career counseling is effective considering career-specific as well as broader, life-related indicators. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10