TY - JOUR
T1 - Counseling for Work and Relationship
AU - Richardson, Mary Sue
N1 - Funding Information:
At the same time as the paradigm of career development and its associated scientific and professional literature was taking shape, theorized that society was constituted by two separate and gendered domains of life. The work domain, gendered male, was the instrumental realm of paid employment that was supported by the expressive domain of family, gendered female. These two domains were complementary and functionally related to one another. Each was necessary for the other. Work and family discourse, associated with Parsons and Bales’s influential theory, identified work solely with the instrumental realm of paid employment. Family was identified as the expressive realm of relationships; the personal care work that was done in families was ignored. This discourse of work and family was influential in eradicating the experience of personal care work as work in the minds of women and men (; ). Career discourse, in turn, privileged a certain kind of paid employment or market work. Both discourses operate in tandem to marginalize personal care work as work.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Counseling for work and relationship is a social constructionist perspective, informed by feminist and social justice values, and responsive to radical changes in contemporary lives, that fosters a shift in vocational psychology from helping people develop careers to helping people construct lives through work and relationship. The first and major proposition of this perspective is a new discourse for describing the construction of lives that specifies four major social contexts through which people construct lives. These social contexts are market work, personal care work, personal relationships, and market work relationships. Additional propositions of the counseling for work and relationship perspective are the centrality of narrative theory for understanding how lives are constructed and agentic action as a critical process in constructing lives. Implications for research, intervention, and training are considered.
AB - Counseling for work and relationship is a social constructionist perspective, informed by feminist and social justice values, and responsive to radical changes in contemporary lives, that fosters a shift in vocational psychology from helping people develop careers to helping people construct lives through work and relationship. The first and major proposition of this perspective is a new discourse for describing the construction of lives that specifies four major social contexts through which people construct lives. These social contexts are market work, personal care work, personal relationships, and market work relationships. Additional propositions of the counseling for work and relationship perspective are the centrality of narrative theory for understanding how lives are constructed and agentic action as a critical process in constructing lives. Implications for research, intervention, and training are considered.
KW - agentic action
KW - narrative
KW - vocational development
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U2 - 10.1177/0011000011406452
DO - 10.1177/0011000011406452
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84555190488
SN - 0011-0000
VL - 40
SP - 190
EP - 242
JO - The Counseling Psychologist
JF - The Counseling Psychologist
IS - 2
ER -