Counseling Athletes in Career Transitions: The Five-Step Career Planning Strategy
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Abstract
Abstract This article presents the Five-Step Career Planning Strategy (5-SCP) that is a counseling framework for helping athletes with career transitions. The first four steps in this strategy deal with mapping out the client's past experiences, current situation, and perceived future. The last step involves integrating their past, present, and projected future into a career and life strategy. Starting out with basic ideas about career transitions, the author proceeds to describe how the 5-SCP framework was developed and tested, provides a detailed step-by-step description of the 5-SCP, and finishes with reviewing consultants' and clients' reflections on the 5-SCP application. KEYWORDS: career counselingcareer planningcareer transitions The author is grateful to Dr. Melissa Chase and anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on an early draft of the article, as well as to all colleagues, students and athlete-clients who provided feedback on the Five-Step Career Planning Strategy. She is thankful to Dr. Maria Cypher for improving overall readability.