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The career guidance counselor

The career guidance counselor must pay close attention to both the spirit of the client and the mind of the client. The client'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, while the mind is the aggregate of wants, values, likes and dislikes. Since the spirit of a man is able to "remember," 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 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 to do. Questions and dialogue through abductive logic may help the counselor help the client uncover what it is he actually enjoys as well as expects, by investigating the things revealed when the client expresses his mind.

Ottens, Shank, and Long note (1195) that "advanced empathic responses are hunches the counselor has devised regarding the implicit or partially revealed meanings embedded in the client's messages." In other words, the client will, consci...

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