About the Book
Introduction "Building an international community of research in Career Guidance and Counseling" V. Cohen-Scali, J. Rossier, L. Nota.- Part I Key Psychological processes involved in career construction of young adults.- Chapter 1 Life Design in Adolescence: The role of positive psychological resources" Sovet, L. (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France), Chiara Annovazzi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Maria Cristina Ginevra (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Andronikos Kaliris (University of Athens, Greece), Ernesto Lodi (University of Sassari, Italy).- Chapter 2 Life designing and positive youth development" S. Santili, Ilaria Di Maggio (University of Padova, Italy) Jenny Marcionetti (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland), Silke Grossen (KU Leuven, Belgium & University of the Free State, South Africa).- Chapter 3 Career Maturity Indicators in Adolescence: Convergence of Different Measures" Iva Cjerna; Sverko, Iva (Centre for Croatian Studies, Department of Psychology, Zagreb, Croatia) & Babarovic, Toni, (Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia).- Chapter 4 Coping with Career Indecision among Young Adults: Implications for Career Counseling" Yuliya Lipshits, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.- Part II Transitions in life.- Chapter 5 A Life Design Perspective on the Work to Retirement Transition" Ariane Froidevaux, Department of Management, Warrington College of Business, Gainesville, US.- Chapter 6 Early Career Construction for Brazilian Higher Education Graduates: Trajectories and Working Life Projects. Andrea Knabem, Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro (Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) and Maria Eduarda Duarte (institute of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal).- Chapter 7 The Place(s) of Careers: Career Development in Coastal and Island Communities" Rosie Alexander & Tristram Hooley, University of Derby, England.- Part III Interventions of Career Guidance and Counseling.- Chapter 8 A Meaning-centered Career Intervention for College Students" C. Arnoux, L. Sovet, L. Lhotellier, N. Baatouche, Cnam, Paris, France.- Chapter 9 Barriers and Enablers to Career Development Elicited by the My System of Career Influences Qualitative Career Assessment Reflection Process in Marginalised South African Youth Anouk Albien; Anthony V. Naidoo, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.- Chapter 10 Guidance centre as site for agency construction for young people in the educational margins" Sanna Makinen & Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.- Part IV Perspectives for the future.- Chapter 11 Which final (or ends) for the interventions for life-and-career design at the Anthropocene era? Jean Guichard, Unesco Chair on lifelong counseling and guidance, University of Wroclaw, Poland.- Chapter 12 Training career guidance and counseling scientists: future challenges and directions. Lea Ferrari, Teresa Maria Sgaramella & Salvatore Soresi. Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy.- Chapter 13 European Research Agenda. P. Weber, J. Katsarov, V. Cohen-Scali, R. Mulvey, L. Nota, J. Rossier, R. Thomsen.
About the Author: Valérie Cohen-Scali is Professor Professor in Career Counseling and Guidance at Inetop-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. She is Researcher at the Center of Research on Work and Development (CRTD). She is deputy Director of the scientific Journal L'Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle [School and Vocational Guidance]. Her research interests concern identity construction of young adults who work while studying, organisational socialization, and the evolution of identity and competences of professionals of the field of training and counselling. She was member the scientific board of the European Doctoral Program in Career Guidance and Counseling (ECADOC) and of the scientific board of the Unesco Chair on Life Long Guidance and Counseling. Jérôme Rossier is full professor of vocational and career counseling psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Lausanne. He is the editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance and member of several editorial boards of scientific journals such as the Journal of Vocational Behavior or the Journal of Research in Personality. His teaching areas and research interests include counseling, personality, psychological assessment, and cross-cultural psychology. He published a great number of articles and book chapters and recently co-edited the Handbook of life design: From practice to theory and from theory to practice. He participated actively to many international research projects, such as the personality across culture research or the international career adaptability project.
