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Career guidance counselor

The career guidance counselor must pay the close attention to both the spirit of the counselee and the mind of the counselee. The counselee's personality exists in his spirit, while his motivation rests in his mind. The spirit of a person is the immaterial essence of the personality that continues to exist after the body dies (see Luke 16:19-31), while the mind of a man is the aggregate of wants, values, likes and dislikes. Since the spirit of a man is able to "remember," (Luke 16:25) the spirit is where true and lasting changes happen. But the mind is where they begin.

A method of counseling that will seek to effect lasting changes in and benefit to the counselee must therefore be willing to deal with the spirit of a person. However, most people do not know their own spirit well, even though it influences what they do. People can describe their actions, but some cannot even guess at their motivation. The secular counselor, ignoring the spirit, treats only the symptoms of the diseased spirit such as neuroses and obsessions of the mind. All of these, however, derive from a spirit that is sick (with sin.) The counselor's difficulty is in finding what the counselee knows (in his spirit) but does not know he knows, through dialogue, questions, and guesses.

Ottens, Shank, and Long propose a method of empathy they call "abductive logic," wherein the counselor forms a hypothesis (guess) as to the counselee's motivation, based on the stories and incidents the counselee tells. The importance of using abductive logic in career counseling is that many people who come in for career counseling are themselves unaware of what they really want to do, and even may be unaware of what they are able to do. Questions and dialogue through abductive logic may help the counselor help the counselee uncover what it is he actually enjoys as well as expects, by investigating the things revealed when the counselee expresses his mind.

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