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Career Counseling Interventions for Video Game Players
Rochat, Shékina; Armengol, Jérôme
Journal of Career Development, v47 n2 p207-219 Apr 2020
Video games are becoming ubiquitous in Western societies. However, this virtual leisure has received little attention from researchers in career counseling, leaving career counselors relatively unprepared to work with video game players. In this article, we propose three types of interventions to capitalize on the benefits of playing video games to foster the career counseling process. The first intervention aims to identify and transfer the skills that video game players develop through their leisure activity. The second intervention highlights how video game players' narrative may reveal vocational personality types. The third intervention proposes to turn career counseling tasks into a game to increase motivation to achieve it. The strengths and limitations of these interventions are underlined, as well as the potential of career counseling sessions to help remedy problematic video game play.
Descriptors: Video Games, Career Counseling, Intervention, Transfer of Training, Personality Traits, Games, Motivation, Career Planning
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