Rui Peng

Xi'an Peihua College

Abstract：

Against the backdrop of increasingly fierce competition in the job market, psychological problems such as anxiety and self doubt caused by job seeking setbacks among college graduates have become more prominent. As a frontline force in student mental health education, the effectiveness of counselors' counseling methods is crucial. Narrative therapy centers around "story reconstruction" and advocates for individuals to use narrative to organize their experiences, deconstruct problems, and reshape their self-awareness, providing a new perspective for psychological counseling of job seeking setbacks. This article combines the practice of employment guidance in universities to analyze the psychological manifestations and causes of job seeking setbacks among graduates. It systematically explores the implementation path of narrative therapy applied by counselors, including problem externalization, story deconstruction, exception event mining, new narrative construction, and witness consolidation. Finally, guarantee strategies are proposed to optimize the application effect, providing theoretical and practical references for improving the quality of psychological guidance for college graduates' employment.

Key Words：

college graduates; job search setbacks; psychological counseling; instructor; narrative therapy