Life Design: A Paradigm for Innovating Career Counselling in Global Context

Title

Life Design: A Paradigm for Innovating Career Counselling in Global Context

Creator

Hartung Paul J

Publisher

Handbook Of Innovative Career Counselling

Date

2019
1905-7

Description

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.

Subject

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

Format

Journal Article

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Pages

3

ISSN

3-030-22799-5

Citation

Hartung Paul J, “Life Design: A Paradigm for Innovating Career Counselling in Global Context,” NEOMED Bibliography Database, accessed March 19, 2024, https://neomed.omeka.net/items/show/10859.