Aubrey (Career Development)

Chaos Theory approximately 1989 derives from economics, mathematics, biology, and physics views individuals as being complex and dynamic and believes that with progress comes challenges The Concept of Attraction process used by individuals to organize coherent self and then maintain and sustain it when change occurs  subdivisions of attraction: point attractor, pendulum attractor, torus attractor, and strange attractor point attractor - focus on choosing the best occupation based on a match between their personalities, abilities, and interests  pendulum attractor - describes swings in behavior (dichotomous either-or thinking, rigid beliefs)  torus attractor - routine, habitual, predictable thinking and behavior; control maintained by organization and classification strange attractor - strong sense of control, appreciate order and stability, adaptation and growth, chance as part of existence  Chaos Theory and Spirituality  connection - focus on how we are

Constructivism beginning in the late 1980-1990s theorists move from modern theories to postmodern ideas also known as: constructivism, constructivist, constructionism, social constructivism, contextualist, narrative  constructivism - defined by a type of learning theory that describes how individuals construct their own ideas about themselves, others, and their words, as they try to "make sense of" their real life and world experiences (knowledge is constructed by people and does not reflect actual reality: internal processes) social constructivism - covers a range of views regarding social processes and relational practices (external processes) belief: individuals do not separate individual and external processes but that they construct and live lives using both internal and external processes, that is set and social respectively  the blend of these approaches requires counselors to enter the psychosocial sphere of a person's career system, or us