Making Meaning of Quantitative Assessment in Career Counseling through a Storytelling Approach

Abstract

This chapter describes the use of an Integrative Structured Interview (ISI) process within a storytelling approach to career counseling that demonstrates the complementarity of quantitative career assessment and storytelling. First, the storytelling approach will be described. Second, broad guidelines for qualitatively incorporating quantitative career assessment into career counseling will be presented. Subsequently, the ISI process will be presented to illustrate how quantitative career assessment may be storied. The ISI process is demonstrated through two case studies using internationally applied quantitative career assessment instruments, specifically Holland's (1985) Self-Directed Search (SDS) interest questionnaire and Super's Work Values Inventory-Revised (SWVI-R; Zytowski, 2006). In concluding the chapter, new directions in the use of quantitative career assessment in career counseling are offered. In addition, the relevance of storying quantitative career assessment in diverse cultural contexts is considered (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)(chapter)