Dr. Miika Kekki from Finland and Rosarii Molloy-Curran from Ireland were interested in trialling the Culturally Appropriate Career Counselling Model (CACCM) within their respective countries. Both were involved in research involving migrants and were interested in examining cultural context's impact on career counselling outcomes.
CACCM was originally developed by Fouad and Bingham in 1995 (Fouad & Bingham, 1995). In 2006, Byars-Winston and Fouad elaborated on the model (Byars-Winston & Fouad, 2006). They made the point that context-sensitive career counselling needs constant attention not just with regard to the client’s cultural context but also to the counsellors (ibid). They suggested expanding the model to include metacognitive processes to aid guidance counsellors when working with clients from diverse backgrounds.
The research objectives were to examine the work of career counsellors working in Finland and Ireland, particularly those working with clients from a migrant background. In particular, the goal was to examine how the American CACCM, created for guidance and counselling with ethnic and cultural minorities, could be transferred or modified to European contexts.
Byars‐Winston, A.M. and Fouad, N.A. (2006) ‘Metacognition and multicultural competence: expanding the culturally appropriate career counseling model’, The Career Development Quarterly, 54(3), pp. 187–201. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2006.tb00151.x.
Sultana, R.G. (2022) ‘The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived’, International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 22(2), pp. 491–510. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-022-09529-z.
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Byars‐Winston, A.M. and Fouad, N.A. (2006) ‘Metacognition and multicultural competence: expanding the culturally appropriate career counseling model’, The Career Development Quarterly, 54(3), pp. 187–201. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2006.tb00151.x.
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Fouad, N. (1995) ‘Career counseling with racial/ethnic minorities’, in Handbook of vocational psychology . 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Routledge.
