Processus de changement et variabilité individuelle au cours des consultations d’orientation

To date, the process of career change and intraindividual aspects of variability in the counseling field have received little empirical attention. This research examines the degree of change for the participants of a career counseling workshop by measuring different patterns of developed individual' characteristics connected with its capacities in terms of orientation and professional insertion at three key times of intervention. The results distinguished, for each studied variable, three groups of participants by a substantial effect, a moderate effect, or no effect at all. Participants' cognitive and personality variables induce small differences for the patterns used such as self-knowledge, environmental knowledge, psychological mobilization, and integration skills. These data are interpreted within an adaptive counseling framework, which emphasizes an individualized career counseling process during consultations in order to define some components of counseling interview which could have positive widespread effects.