The career guidance counselor

A method of counseling that will seek to effect lasting changes in and benefit to the client 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. A counselor treats the symptoms of the diseased spirit such as neuroses and obsessions of the mind. The counselor's difficulty is in finding what the client 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 client's motivation, based on the stories and incidents the client 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 may even be unaware of what they are able t

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s to reality. Maybe the client will eventually work in a high powered office, but if such a position is not available he may have to settle for full or even part time employment, at McDonald's for example. The job counselor will also have to be a spiritual counselor to help the client through this time of transition. Second, clients are not able to adequately adjust the set or number of choices they will select from. Computers, with their huge variety of options, can easily overwhelm a person untrained in weeding out the unlikely and unwanted. Third, "dominance," or preference for a choice according to a set of values, can mingle with the computer's summaries and recommendations and confuse the client. Fourth, how the computer helps the client "rank" choices is both personal to the programmer and takes this important responsibility from the user. Last, and perhaps most importantly, a computer lulls a user into a sense of certainty that is unrealistic for a career search (52-53). Yet the counselor can find computers a very useful tool. And they will always be useful as long as they remain a tool, and do not replace the one the computers were initially designed to be used by. From pre-computer counseling on effectiveness to cou
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