Integrative critical analysis

What is the purpose of the article?

            This article serves the purpose of proving the effectiveness of life-design counselling as evaluated by Career Counselling Innovative Outcomes (CCIO). This articles also sheds light on the fact that life-design intervention effectiveness has not been explored a lot due to lack of narrative research methods that can fit the constructionist base of the life-design paradigm. This paper serves as evidence that the life-design intervention helps meet career challenges and adapt to changes taking place in the global economy and the digital era by helping individuals increase their metacompetencies of adaptability and their identity.  

What is the author trying to accomplish?

            With this articles the writer is trying to show the effectiveness of life design intervention over all the other interventions. The writer is also trying to prove that the need to develop qualitative assessment and the need to verify the effectiveness of life design counselling is as a result of emergence of the narrative perspective in career counselling.  The author tries to prove that the vast changes that are taking place currently in the world of work and careers will force the nature of assessing career intervention to change.  The author tries to show that the life-design as an intervention approach helps client to create meaningful changes in their lives by developing an expanded and clearer conceptualization of one self.  The author is also trying to show that there is a need to produce a new qualitative tool that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of life design interventions.

What issues or problems are raised?

            Issues such as the lack of extensive research that explains the effectiveness of the life design counselling approach.

            The reason as to why it is difficult to develop a tool that measures the outcomes of the life design tool is because this narrative approach to career intervention is intrinsically qualitative, and there are not many qualitative tools that are focused on assessing narrative change.

            Traditional quantitative instruments capacity to measure and comprehend the nature of qualitative changes in individual’s self-narrative is limited.

What data, experiences, and evidences are given

The data collected is in form of answers to seven questions that are given by a 25 years’ old female Biomedical engineering student who was about to transition from a university student to the field of work.  The narrative from those seven asked questions were coded using a system of five categories.  The data was also collected using an interview on five key areas. 

What concepts are used to organize this data, these experiences?

The trustworthiness of the data collected was guaranteed using concepts of data collection and analysis, including credibility, confirmability, transferability and dependability.  The answers to the seven questions that were used were based on five types of innovative moments, namely; action, reflection, protest, reconceptualization and performing change.

How is the author thinking about the world?

 The author is thinking about the world as a dynamic world that is ever changing and as a world where so many changes are taking place in careers and work fields.  The author also views the world as one with limited opportunities and one with economic crisis that have accentuated the already chances of finding jobs.

Is their thinking justified as far as we can see our perspective?

As far as we can see the authors thinking that the world is one with limited opportunities and one with economic crisis that have accentuated peoples’ chances of finding skilled jobs is justified by the high number of graduates that do not have jobs and those who have jobs that don’t match their skills.

And how do they justify it from their perspective?

The author justifies their perspective by using CCIO to help the student realized that she needs to look beyond her home town if she desires to find a job that matches her skills.

How can we enter their perspective to appreciate what they have to say?

To enter the perspective of the author in order to be able to appreciate what they say, one has to fist agree with the authors perspective on the world and understand the various reason the author hold this perspective.

 

 

 

 

 

References

Di Fabio, A. (2016). Life design and career counseling innovative outcomes. The career   development quarterly, 64(1), 35-48