| Summary: | Counseling psychologist Mark L. Savickas conducts the first of three sessions with a Caucasian female client at a late career point who recently lost her job in educational sales due to company downsizing. The client expresses a wish to seek new opportunities but is uncertain about what those might be. In the first of three psychotherapy sessions, Dr. Savickas draws questions from The Career Style Interview encompassing early role models and experiences in childhood and adulthood. Using a narrative constructivist framework, he engages the client in a process of exploration of themes over the course of her life in preparation for considering meaningful occupational paths. The therapist builds a rapport with the client using self-disclosure to express shared interests and validates the importance of the client's life story, saving deeper questions about early memories until rapport is more firmly established. The client makes a number of process comments throughout and explains the constructivist nature of the therapy between client and therapist.
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