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Challenges for Career Counseling in Asia: Variations in Cultural Accommodation
Author(s) -
Leong Frederick T. L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2002.tb00903.x
Subject(s) - accommodation , career counseling , context (archaeology) , field (mathematics) , psychology , sociology , political science , public relations , applied psychology , geography , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics , neuroscience
Using K. Lewin's (1938) concept of a force field analysis, a model is proposed for examining the challenges of providing career counseling in Asia in terms of prevailing and countervailing forces. The model also suggests a need to avoid a simple importation of Western models of career counseling, which may not be an optimal fit for the Asian cultural context. Instead, the cultural accommodation approach is offered as a viable alternative.