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What do the participants gain? Group counselling to enhance agency at work

Authors: Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho, Ritva Ruponen

Published in: International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance | Issue 3/2013

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Group counselling was carried out in an IT enterprise. The task was to study structured group counselling as a space for enhancing participants’ agency at work. The first research question concerned changes the participants reported regarding the group and their collaborative and individual work. The second research question asked what kinds of individual courses of development emerged based on changes in the participants’ self-observation and action patterns.

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This study is part of the research project ‘Group Counselling in the Era of Change and Uncertainty: Navigating Forward’ (Vanhalakka-Ruoho et al., 2009). The task of the project is to study how group guidance and counselling and the associated practices act as cultural and relational spaces to promote the agency and career construction of the participants.

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Title: What do the participants gain? Group counselling to enhance agency at work
Authors: Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho
Ritva Ruponen
Publication date: 01-10-2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1873-0388
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1782
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-013-9248-9

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