Shaping the Story - A Guide to Facilitating Narrative Counselling

This title presents an overview of international perspectives on the issues of narrative career counselling - critically analyses germane questions, such as 'How vital and feasible is it to build on life stories in career counselling?'; facilitates an understanding and application of theories, goals, methods and assessments in narrative counselling; focuses on narrative counselling as an emerging theory for facilitating success in life; provides practical guidelines on the practice of narrative counselling in different contexts; examines the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of hermeneutic-narrative, postmodern and constructivist approaches to career counselling; presents ideas on how to engage clients actively; suggests ways of using life-story counselling to produce new identities for career practice.