The Exploration Of Group Career Counseling For College Freshmen

Career counseling has been developed for a long history in Western countries. However, it has been studied for only several years in China. And most of the researches concern on the importance of career counseling on college students. Group career counseling is seldom studied.Based on the career development theories put forward by Super, Holland and Swain, using group counseling theory and individual counseling theory put forward by Egan, this dissertation designs the courses of group career counseling.The study selects 15 college freshmen of Xiamen University and Jimei University each as the subject group, which is under the intervention of the group career counseling, and selects 30 students from corresponding universities as the comparative group which is without any intervention.After ten-meetings group career counseling, the study draws the conclusion as following:Firstly, the execution is active and effective.Secondly, the group career counseling promotes the subject member's consciousness of career plan.Thirdly, the group career counseling changes the directional of career decision.Fourthly, the group career counseling can't improve the mental health level in short term.