CAREER-STORY INTERVIEWING USING THE

THREE ANECDOTES TECHNIQUE (TAT)

INTRODUCTION

Career-story interviewing

Drawing clients three earliest memories for career counselling (TAT)

Early memories provide insight

Information from memories may lead to possible solutions to problems

Understanding the self with help from the counsellor

Safe non-threatening atmosphere must be created for effective counselling

THEORY

Adlerian Theory

Psychodynamic Theory

MELDING THE PSYCHODYNAMIC, DIFFERENTIAL

& DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES
Savickas career construction counselling for life designing

Identify life themes

Counsellors must listen carefully to clients stories to identify major life themes.

Creating a holding environment

Institutions provide us with holding environments early on in life.

Narratibility
People draw on autobiographical reasoning when making life changes.

(Auto) Biographicity
Counsellors must be useful to clients as they identify their life themes so they are able to
use work to become more whole

SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE

CONCLUSION