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Career Theory:

Edwin BordinJenna Marie M. PertgenWho?

Bordin was born in Pennsylvania on November 7, 1913 Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He was the youngest of three boys. Bordin earned his bachelors and masters degrees at Temple University. He earned his doctorate at Ohio State in 1942After 3 years in the armed forces, Bordin took his first academic positions at the University of Minnesota and then Washington State University. In 1948, he was hired at the University of Michigan as an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Counseling Division of the Bureau of Psychological Services (Galinsky, 1995)with his low key and respectful, yet dynamic andinfluential personality, died in La Jolla, California on August 24, 1992.

Psychoanalytic approaches - used in regard to career choice or other issues - have never been extremely popular with helpers trained in counseling departments since short-term, time efficient modalities are stressed.felt that difficulties related to job choice :are indicative of neurotic symptomsare indicative of inappropriate rein forcers in the environmentare related to a lack of present moment awareness.are the result of irrational cognitions.

Applying a Freudian psychodynamic approach to career counseling:Bordin's play theory leading to Career Theorysome researchers looked at people in various occupations and found that those in different groups differed in terms of personality and early childhood experiencesBordin took data from these studies and postulated his own theory. He emphasizes on the development of personality in relation to the role of work and play in an individual's life.

To Bordin, he suggested that people throughout their lives seek work which they " find deeply interesting or from which they can derive pleasure" ( Lent& S.D. Brown, 2013,p.3)

a basic tenet of the theory is that individuals: seek enjoyment in work as in other areas of their lives. Bordin proposed that play is basically satisfying and it is the satisfaction of simply engaging in an activity which distinguishes play from work. Individuals express their need for play in work as in other areas of their lives by looking for something they will enjoy.Bordin claimed that in young children, play and work are fused, and that through the process of development and socialization, play and work become demarcated. He accounted for this demarcation in terms of " spontaneity, which is used to refer to elements of self-expression and self-realization in our response to situations" (Bordin, 1990,p.105).

this means that the activities of young children are intrinsically satisfying. However as they mature, play becomes more complex and they become aware of their effort needed to achieve mastery as well as the external pressures of others. During these early years, the individuals build a unique identity, drawing to some extent from the influences of their parents.. opposite of play is compulsion: feeling compelled to take a certain job or enter a certain career because parents, teachers, or others wish the individual to do so

Wanting to do something cause you want to not because you are forced to do it.6So the reality of needing to earn a living and the desire for personal meaning and creative expression.these compulsions can last throughout adulthoodthese compulsions create a conflict between the need for enjoyment and the desires of authority figures, for instance

Bordin described the evolution of personality as the mechanism which guides cognitive processes at times of career choice, whether those points have arisen for external or internal reasons.External reasons include the desire for increased work satisfaction. In making choices, individuals conduct a self assessment and gauge the probabilities of success based on intrinsic satisfaction, which may include " curiosity, precision, expressiveness and concern with right and wrong and justice as well as..nurturance" (bordin,1990,p.114)

focuses much more in the individual striving for inner meaning.Bordin's approach is clearly a significant move away from the tradition of matching approaches with their emphasis on objectivity and more in line with recent narrative approaches founded in constructivism and social constructionism that are more accommodating of qualitative assessment and creative processes.

Summary"Analyzed career choices using the unconscious mind"felt that career choices could be used to solve unconscious conflicts.Bordin emphasize the unconscious processes in terms of career choicefelt that difficulties related to job choice are indicative of neurotic symptomsWanting to do something cause you want to not because you are forced to

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