Life Design: A Paradigm for Innovating Career Counselling in Global Context
Psychology; Career theory; Globalization; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Career Skills; Counselling and Interpersonal Skills; Career construction theory and counselling; Career development paradigms; Career intervention; Life designing
More than a decade has elapsed since the original statement of life design as an innovative and internationally-constructed paradigm for careers science and practice. Responding to the challenges of work and career in contemporary times, life design shifts the paradigm for career counselling from match-making to meaning making. This chapter situates life design in global context; reviews its core tenets, constructs, and practice methods; and considers its conceptual, empirical, and practice advance. Life designing offers positive direction for the careers field to foster human health and well-being through promoting work and employment in all people’s lives. Continuing to adopt and advance life-design principles and practices helps transform career counselling from a straightforward logical pursuit to a complex therapeutic endeavor to assist people to use work as a way to imbue their lives with purpose and direction. Continuing advances in the emerging life design tradition led by approaches such as Career Construction Theory and Practice help dissolve long-held false distinctions between career and mental-health counselling. Such efforts give way to innovating a perspective on work as central to counselling for mental health and well-being. Goals of the life design paradigm continue to propel it as an innovative intervention model for meaningfully construing and constructing work and career in human life.
Hartung Paul J
Handbook Of Innovative Career Counselling
2019
1905-7
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_1</a>
Drawing on the Innovative Moments Model to Explain and Foster Career Construction Counselling
Psychology; Life design; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Career construction counselling; Career research; Career Skills; Client change; Counselling and Interpersonal Skills; Innovative moments; Narrative change
Career Construction Counselling (CCC) is a narrative intervention that supports individuals in the elaboration of narrative identity and career construction. CCC theory, research, and practice has benefited from the Innovative Moments Model (IMM) to explain client change. Similar to CCC, the IMM is grounded on a narrative conception of human functioning, in which psychological difficulties arise from problematic self-narratives that constrain meaning-making. Change occurs when clients challenge problematic self-narratives and construct new meanings that lead to new ways of behaving, thinking, or feeling. These novelties are termed innovative moments. The integration of IMM into the study of CCC has provided empirical evidence about the processes of client change throughout this intervention. Findings show that the transformation of a client’s self-narrative is associated with the aims of each session that involve a movement from a focus on structuring the past to an increased engagement in projecting the future. Moreover, results suggest the possibility of using IMs as process markers to guide counsellors in facilitating client change during counselling sessions. This chapter explains the contribution of IMM to CCC theory, research, and practice; describes the IM framework; reviews CCC process research using the IMM; and finally discusses research implications for CCC theory and practice are discussed.
Paulo Cardoso; Miguel M Gonçalves; Savickas Mark L
Handbook Of Innovative Career Counselling
2019
1905-7
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_29" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_29</a>