Handbook of Life Design

Laura Nota, PhD, is a professor of career construction and career counseling and psychological counseling for the inclusion of social disadvantage in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. She is the author more than 150 scientific articles published in international and national journals as well as more than 10 books. Jerome Rossier, PhD, is currently a full professor of vocational and counseling psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters mainly about vocational counseling, cross-cultural, and personality issues.

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 (preliminary): Handbook of Life Design From Practice to Theory and From Theory to Practice Laura Nota & Jerome Rossier (Editors) Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction Part II: The Life Design Paradigm Chapter 2: From Vocational Guidance and Career Counseling to Life Design Dialogues Jean Guichard Chapter 3: Dynamics in Career Development: Personal and Organizational Perspectives Andreas Hirschi and Jean-Pierre Dauwalder Chapter 4: The Life Design Paradigm: From Practice to Theory Maria Eduarda Duarte and Paulo Cardoso Chapter 5: Vocational Trajectories and People's Multiple Identities: A Life Design Jacques Pouyaud Chapter 6: From Narratives to Action and a Life Design Approach Mark Watson and Mary McMahon Part III: Life Design Across the Life Span Chapter 7: Life Design in Childhood: Antecedents and Advancement Paul J. Hartung Chapter 8: Career Counseling and the Uniqueness of the Individual Adolescent Gudbjorg Vilhjalmsdottir Chapter 9: Life Design, Young Adults, and the School-to-Work Transition Jonas Masdonati and Genevieve Fournier Chapter 10: Life Design With Adults: Developmental Individualization Using Biographical Bricolage Mark L. Savickas Part IV: Life Design Interventions and Activities Chapter 11: Career Adaptability and Life Designing Jerome Rossier Chapter 12: Coaching: A Career Intervention Model Within Life Design Raoul Van Esbroeck and Marie-Therese Augustijnen Chapter 13: Life Design and Prevention Laura Nota, Maria Cristina Ginevra, and Sara Santilli Chapter 14: Unemployment: Creating and Conserving Resources for Career Self-Regulation Annelies E. M. van Vianen, Jessie Koen, and Ute-Christine Klehe Chapter 15: Bridging Disability and Work: Contribution and Challenges of Life Design Lea Ferrari, Teresa Maria Sgaramella, and Salvatore Soresi Chapter 16 Poverty and Life Design J. G. Maree Chapter 17: Cultural Perspectives on Life Design Hsiu-Lan S. Tien Chapter 18: A Reflexive Research Approach to Professional Competencies for Life Design Peter McIlveen Part V: Conclusion Chapter 19: Conclusion About the Authors