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By (author) Laura Nota; Edited by Nota Laura; Edited by Rossier Jerome

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Our lives and careers are becoming ever more unpredictable. The “life-design paradigm” described in detail in this ground-breaking handbook helps counselors and others meet people”s increasing need to develop and manage their own lives and careers.

Our lives and careers are becoming ever more unpredictable. The “life-design paradigm” described in detail in this ground-breaking handbook helps counselors and others meet people”s increasing need to develop and manage their own lives and careers. Life-design interventions, suited to a wide variety of cultural settings, help individuals become actors in their own lives and careers by activating, stimulating, and developing their personal resources. This handbook first addresses life-design theory, then shows how to apply life designing to different age groups and with more at-risk people, and looks at how to train life-design counselors.

Table of contents
Table of Contents:Handbook of Life DesignFrom Practice to Theory and From Theory to PracticeLaura Nota & Jerome Rossier (Editors)Part I: IntroductionChapter 1: IntroductionPart II: The Life Design ParadigmChapter 2: From Vocational Guidance and Career Counseling to Life Design DialoguesJean GuichardChapter 3: Dynamics in Career Development: Personal and Organizational PerspectivesAndreas Hirschi and Jean-Pierre DauwalderChapter 4: The Life Design Paradigm: From Practice to TheoryMaria Eduarda Duarte and Paulo CardosoChapter 5: Vocational Trajectories and People”s Multiple Identities: A Life DesignJacques PouyaudChapter 6: From Narratives to Action and a Life Design ApproachMark Watson and Mary McMahonPart III: Life Design Across the Life SpanChapter 7: Life Design in Childhood: Antecedents and AdvancementPaul J. HartungChapter 8: Career Counseling and the Uniqueness of the Individual AdolescentGudbjorg VilhjalmsdottirChapter 9: Life Design, Young Adults, and the School-to-Work TransitionJonas Masdonati and Genevieve FournierChapter 10: Life Designing With Adults: Developmental Individualization Using Biographical BricolageMark L. SavickasPart IV: Life Design Interventions and ActivitiesChapter 11: Career Adaptability and Life DesigningJerome RossierChapter 12: Coaching: A Career Intervention Model Within Life DesignRaoul Van Esbroeck and Marie-Therese AugustijnenChapter 13: Life Design and PreventionLaura Nota, Maria Cristina Ginevra, and Sara SantilliChapter 14: Unemployment: Creating and Conserving Resources for Career Self-RegulationAnnelies E. M. van Vianen, Jessie Koen, and Ute-Christine KleheChapter 15: Bridging Disability and Work: Contribution and Challenges of Life DesignLea Ferrari, Teresa Maria Sgaramella, and Salvatore SoresiChapter 16 Poverty and Life DesignJacobus G. MareeChapter 17: Cultural Perspectives on Life DesignHsiu-Lan S. TienChapter 18: A Refl exive Research Approach to Professional Competencies for Life DesignPeter McIlveenPart V: ConclusionChapter 19: ConclusionAbout the Authors

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In a time of major economic, social, and cultural transformation there is need for a new paradigm of career development and change. The concept of life design provides an approach to help people develop the necessary reflexivity so that they can survive and thrive in a rapidly changing world. In this book an impressive array of scholars outline, in a very readable format, a comprehensive view of both the theory and practice of life design as applied across the life span. This is a book for the 21st century, a book that will provide stimulation for both academics and practitioners.”; Norman Amundson, Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; “This impressive book builds substantially on the work of the International Life Design group. It begins by explaining the theory and concepts that unde