Conference paper 2008

Increasing the career choice readiness of young adolescents: An evaluation study

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Hirschi, Andreas
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Läge, Damian
International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance
Journal · Vol. 8 · Issue 2 · pp. 95-110
Abstract

A career workshop that applies models of the Cognitive Information Processing Approach (Sampson, Reardon, Peterson, & Lenz, 2004) and incorporates critical ingredients (Brown and Ryan Krane, 2000) to promote the career choice readiness of young adolescents was developed and evaluated with 334 Swiss students in seventh grade applying a Solomon four group design with a three-month follow-up. Participants significantly increased their performance in terms of career decidedness, career planning, career exploration, and vocational identity. Implications for evaluation research and counselling practice are presented. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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Career counselling Career choice readiness Outcome research

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Author Affiliations
301 CEDAR Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
Universität Zürich, Zurich, ZH, Switzerland
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