Transition to Adulthood (eBook)
X, 238 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4419-6238-6 (ISBN)
The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other psychosocial transformations. Now more than ever, there is a concern within popular and research literature about children growing up too soon or too late or failing to realize changes associated with being adult. With this in mind, the book intends to answer a series of timely questions in regard to transition to adulthood and propose a wholly new approach to counseling that enables youth to engage fully in their lives and achieve their best.
Active Transition to Adulthood: A New Approach for Counseling will discuss the authors' work on the transition to adulthood (including early and late adolescence) from an entirely innovative perspective - action theory. Over a period of 10-15 years the authors have collected substantial data on adolescents and youth in transition, and will present an approach to counseling based on these data and cases. The action theory perspective in which the authors have grounded their work addresses the intentional, goal-directed behavior of persons and groups that is expressed through particular actions, longer-term projects, and life-encompassing careers. In this book, both transition to adulthood and counseling will be covered in the language of goal-directed action. In this way both transition and counseling reflect and capture the action, projects, and careers in which families, youth, and clients are engaged and use to construct on-going identity and other narratives.
Richard A. Young, Ph.D., is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations, a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia, and President of Division 16 (Counselling Psychology) of the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is a founding member of the Aeschi Group on Meeting the Suicidal Person. His current interests include the application of action theory and the qualitative action-project method to a variety of research topics, including the transition to adulthood, families, career development, health, and suicide.
Sheila K. Marshall is an Associate Professor of Family Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research investigates adolescent-parent interactions and the transfer and uptake of rights and responsibilities during the transition to adulthood. She is particularly interested in the management of information between adolescents and parents and how it, in turn, influences actions such as identity construction and resource sharing.
Ladislav Valach is Oberassistant at the Institute of Psychology, Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University Zurich and a private practitioner. He is a founding member of the Aeschi Group on Meeting the Suicidal Person. His current interests include questions on organization and flow of actions, projects and long-term processes such as career, health, suicide, work, and life enhancement. Together with his colleagues he deals with practical, theoretical and methodological issues in his writing, teaching, discussing, counseling and psychotherapy.
The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other psychosocial transformations. Now more than ever, there is a concern within popular and research literature about children growing up too soon or too late or failing to realize changes associated with being adult. With this in mind, the book intends to answer a series of timely questions in regard to transition to adulthood and propose a wholly new approach to counseling that enables youth to engage fully in their lives and achieve their best. Active Transition to Adulthood: A New Approach for Counseling will discuss the authors' work on the transition to adulthood (including early and late adolescence) from an entirely innovative perspective - action theory. Over a period of 10-15 years the authors have collected substantial data on adolescents and youth in transition, and will present an approach to counseling based on these data and cases. The action theory perspective in which the authors have grounded their work addresses the intentional, goal-directed behavior of persons and groups that is expressed through particular actions, longer-term projects, and life-encompassing careers. In this book, both transition to adulthood and counseling will be covered in the language of goal-directed action. In this way both transition and counseling reflect and capture the action, projects, and careers in which families, youth, and clients are engaged and use to construct on-going identity and other narratives.
Richard A. Young, Ph.D., is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations, a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia, and President of Division 16 (Counselling Psychology) of the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is a founding member of the Aeschi Group on Meeting the Suicidal Person. His current interests include the application of action theory and the qualitative action-project method to a variety of research topics, including the transition to adulthood, families, career development, health, and suicide.Sheila K. Marshall is an Associate Professor of Family Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research investigates adolescent-parent interactions and the transfer and uptake of rights and responsibilities during the transition to adulthood. She is particularly interested in the management of information between adolescents and parents and how it, in turn, influences actions such as identity construction and resource sharing.Ladislav Valach is Oberassistant at the Institute of Psychology, Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University Zurich and a private practitioner. He is a founding member of the Aeschi Group on Meeting the Suicidal Person. His current interests include questions on organization and flow of actions, projects and long-term processes such as career, health, suicide, work, and life enhancement. Together with his colleagues he deals with practical, theoretical and methodological issues in his writing, teaching, discussing, counseling and psychotherapy.
Preface 5
Contents 8
1 Transition to Adulthood: Introduction 9
Definition of Transition to Adulthood 9
North American Cultural Context 10
Perspectives on the Transition to Adulthood 12
Life Events 12
Rites of Passage 13
Psychosocial Maturity 14
Summary 14
Why a Different Approach? 15
2 Transition to Adulthood as Goal-Directed Action 18
The Action-Theoretical Paradigm for Understanding Transitions to Adulthood 19
Successful Transition to Adulthood 22
The Processes of Successful Transitioning to Adulthood 25
Process Issues 25
Coordination and Compatibility 25
Communication 26
Steering Processes 26
Control and Regulation Processes 26
Monitoring Processes 27
Energizing Processes 28
3 Action and the Practice of Counseling for Transitions 29
Counseling for Transition from the Action-Theory Perspective 32
Understanding Counseling as a Goal-Directed Process 32
Empirical Methods to Support Understanding Counseling as a Goal-Directed Process 33
The Self-Confrontation Interview 34
Observing 35
Counseling's First Task: Linking Counseling and Transition (Life Processes) 36
Counseling's Second Task: Identifying Systems and Levels of Projects and Action 36
Relational Perspective 38
Assessing and Intervening 38
Counseling's Third Task: Dealing with Emotion and Emotional Memory 38
Counseling's Fourth Task: Dealing with Suboptimal and Detrimental Actions, Projects, and Careers 40
Counseling's Fifth Task: Creating and Maintaining the Working Alliance 40
Conclusion 41
4 Studying Transition Processes 43
Example 1 44
Example 2 46
The Action-Project Method 47
Formulating Research Questions 47
Unit of Analysis 48
Data Gathering 48
Data Sources 49
Implementing Procedures 50
Analysis 51
Naïve Observation 51
Analysis Products 52
Value and Limitations of the Method 54
Conclusion 55
5 Relationships 56
Relationship 57
Expectations and Expectation Violations 59
Relationship and Context 60
Communication 61
Power 63
Case Example 65
Conclusion 66
6 Emotion and the Transition to Adulthood 69
Emotion as Contributing to the Transition Project 70
Emotional Disturbance 71
Emotional Intelligence and Emotion Regulation 72
Parental Influence on Transition Processes 73
Action Theory and Emotion 73
Emotion as a Social Process 75
Case Example 75
The Transition Project 77
Parental Emotion Regulation 78
Youth Emotion Regulation 78
Joint Actions 79
Grades and the Nursing Program 80
Summer Jobs 80
Motorcycles and Independence 81
Moving Toward Marriage 82
Discussion 83
Emotion, Relationship, and the Transition Project 84
Working with Emotion in Transition Counseling 85
Identify Goals, Steps, and Emotions 85
Explore the Goal-Directed Nature of Disagreement 85
Identify Emotional Disturbance as a Joint Process 86
Parent as Emotional Regulator 86
Decide How to Share Emotion Regulation 87
Explore Emotional as Well as Physical Distance 87
Use Emotion to Energize Positive Action 88
The Action-Project Method as Intervention 88
Self-Confrontation as Intervention 88
Therapeutically Monitored Projects 89
Conclusion 89
7 Identity 90
Identity in Late Modern Societies 90
Action Theory and Identity 92
Identity Construction Example 1 94
Identity Construction Example 2 96
Conclusion 97
8 Family 98
Domains of Projects and Actions 99
Career Development 100
Education 102
Health/Safety 103
Family and Relationship as an Overarching Project 104
Degree of Focus in Family Transition to Adulthood Projects 107
Case Study 109
9 Work 112
A Taxonomy of Work in Peoples Lives 113
Action and the Work Project 115
The Case of Jen and Noah 115
Disengaged Experience 117
The Case of Phillip and David 118
Work and Other Projects 119
Occupational Identity and Work Projects 119
Financial Projects and Work Projects 120
Lifestyle Projects and Work Projects 120
Romantic Relationships Projects and Work Projects 120
Sexual Identity Projects and Work Projects 120
Peer Relationships Projects and Work Projects 121
Hobbies Related Projects and Work Projects 121
Health-Related Projects and Work Projects 121
Conclusion 122
10 Culture 123
Culture 123
Culturally Sensitive Understanding of the Transition to Adulthood 126
Nave Observation 128
Making Nave Observations 129
Case Illustration 130
Conclusion 134
11 Romantic Relationships 135
The Nature of Youth Romantic Relationships 135
Romantic Relationship Projects 137
Romantic Partners Transition Projects 138
Recommendations for Counseling 141
Case Study 143
12 Transition in the Context of Disability 146
Mother of an 18-Year-Old Son with Developmental Disabilities 146
The Transition to Adulthood Among Youth with Disabilities or Chronic Illness 147
Transition Contexts 147
Understanding the Parental Role 148
Parental Involvement as a Joint Process 149
The Value of Contextual Action Theory 150
Case Example 151
Discussion 155
Implications of Action-Theoretical Lens 156
Reconceptualizing Parent Involvement 157
The Degree of Joint Involvement 158
Emotional Processes 158
Focused and Diffuse Transition Projects 159
Internal and External Resources 159
Implications for Counseling Interventions 160
Conclusion 162
13 Suicide in the Context of the Transition to Adulthood 163
Risk Factors 165
Protective Factors 166
Suicide: From Causally Determined Structural Constellation to Goal-Directed Processes 167
Counseling Interventions for Suicide Prevention: A Contextual Action-Theory Perspective 169
Case Example 170
Actions 170
''Having Unwanted Visitors'' Action 170
Suicide Preceding (Triggering) Action 171
Key Suicide Action 171
''Going to the Hospital'' Action 171
Projects 172
''Not Being Able to Get a Word in Edgewise'' (Not Belonging) Childhood Project 172
''Being Jealous of Her Brother'' Project 172
''Boyfriend-Relationship'' Project 172
''Previous Suicide'' Project 173
''Managing Problems Well'' Project (Job in a Large Department Store, Having an Understanding Boss) 173
''Job in Another Department Store'' Project 173
''Feeling Excluded'' Project 173
''Female Colleague''s Intervention in Her Relationship'' Project 174
Projects After the Suicide Attempt 174
''Relationship No Longer a Habit'' Project 174
''Self-Worth'' Project 174
''Strengthening of Relationship with Mother'' Project 175
''Parting with the Female Colleague'' Project 175
Therapy Project 175
Career 175
''Problematic Relationship with Parents/Father'' Career, Parallel to the Suicide Career 175
Conclusion 177
14 Working with Narrative and Interpretation 178
Narrative and Counseling 182
Establishing the Connection Between Lives, Counseling Process, and Narratives 183
Working with Interpretation 185
A Specific Procedure for Counseling Parents and Youth in Transition 187
Client Population 188
Phase 1. Session 1 -- Initial Encounter Between the Counselor and the Client 188
Session 2 190
Session 3 190
Phase 2 191
Phase 3 191
Actual and Possible Outcomes 192
Conclusion 193
15 Using the Self-Confrontation Procedure in Counseling 195
As an Agent in Narrative Construction 198
Awareness of Processes in Which the Client Is Engaged 198
Highlighting Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Processes 199
Recognizing and Grasping Emerging Self-Realizations 199
The CounselorClient Relationship 201
Addressing Strong Emotions 201
Desensitization 202
Experiencing Strength and Competence 202
Experiencing Getting Hurt Before Feeling Better 203
Improved, More Positive Feelings 203
Challenges to Using the Self-Confrontation 203
Introducing the Self-Confrontation Procedure 204
Dealing with the Novelty and Shyness 205
Various Clients Understanding of the Task in the Self-Confrontation Interview 205
Prompting for Thoughts and Feelings 205
Conclusion 206
References 207
Index 229
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.9.2010 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | IX, 235 p. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | action theory • Counseling • Identity • transition processes • transition to adulthood |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4419-6238-7 / 1441962387 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4419-6238-6 / 9781441962386 |
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