Blog 9: Constructivism

1. Theorist:

• Richard Young
• Audrey Collin
• Began 1980s
• Peaked 1990s

2. Theory:

• Describes how individuals construct their own ideas about themselves, others, and their worlds as they try to make sense out of their real-life experiences. 
• Implications: 
1. Emphasizes multicultural perspectives and focuses on belief that there is no fixed truth
2. Qualitative assessments provide frames and stimuli that assist clients in telling their stories
3. Directed career practitioner towards that holistic experiences of a person's career within their environmental context. 
4. Narrative therapists help clients see that their worlds are constructed through language and cultural practice and that clients can subsequently deconstruct through reconstruct their assumptions and perceptions. 
5. Clients stories are face valid, have intrinsic value, and narrative therapists that clients stories reflect some meaningful aspect of that person. 

3. External Video:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkdSe-SpD_w

Gysbers, N.C, Heppner, M. J., & Johnston, J. A. (2014). Career Counseling: Holism, Diversity, and Strengths. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association. (4th ed).