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Challenges and Responsibilities

The psychological intervention in career guidance has been inspired by
different models: (a) differentialist (what), which refers to the importance
of individual characteristics such as interests and skills, (b) developmental
(how), which refers to the importance of the processes of change that
occur throughout the life cycle, and (c) relational (with whom), which
places the practice within the network of significant relationships.

In addition, intervention in this field assumes a multiplicity of modalities,
such as educational and vocational information sessions, individual
consultation or counselling, guidance and transition programmes for work,
and consulting activities - in a process that has sought to articulate with
the other agents involved in the education, training and work systems.

Over the last twenty years, the changes in career1,2 have created new
concerns or needs, which will have to be reflected in practice, in terms of
their modalities, techniques, and even moments and contexts of
intervention.

In the current setting, the main challenge is the need to look at career
intervention as a lifelong support process in different contexts, focusing on
the development of career management processes or competencies,
convening the person and their system of meaningful relationships3.

A first challenge is to adapt the principles of differentiation to the field of
career intervention, offering services that respond adequately to the
growing heterogeneity of our consultants.

A second challenge stems from the impact of new information and
communication technologies (ICT) on the provision of guidance services. In
fact, ICT and increasingly the Internet, allow synchronous and asynchronous
counselling practices at a distance, providing greater access to guidance
services to a greater diversity of consultants, namely in school and professional
information, and now the intervention is no longer limited to a certain physical
space or territory (e.g. school or company), going on to