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Life-Design Counselling from an Innovative Career Counselling Perspective

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Adopting a new career counselling perspective is an essential element in the continuous effort to innovate the life-design (LD) paradigm and make it sustainable in a dialogue together with other emerging counselling models and theories. This constant dialogue corresponds to the route traveled by seminal figures in the career counselling discipline and is currently best represented by a consistent effort to renovate assessment and intervention procedures and tools (particularly those promoting a holistic and dynamic view of the person-in-context). The discussion around employability is used as a platform for showing life-designing potential in this innovative agenda. In an effort to anticipate future challenges, the authors claim the advantage of adopting an integrated research agenda that is able to align converging epistemologies in career theory, assessment and practice in a both bottom-up (theory-building) and top-down (theory-driven) shared scientific endeavor.

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Duarte, M.E., Paixão, M.P., da Silva, J.T. (2019). Life-Design Counselling from an Innovative Career Counselling Perspective. In: Maree, J. (eds) Handbook of Innovative Career Counselling . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_3

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