The well-being outcomes of career guidance

Abstract

The potential for career guidance to impact on well-being has received insufficient attention in the UK. There are both conceptual and empirical reasons to expect that the impacts may be positive, but a lack of evidence directly testing this proposition. Career guidance has commonalities with therapeutic counselling suggesting analogous effects, and it promotes positive engagement in work and learning, which may be associated with health benefits. There are implications for services in reconciling health and employment objectives. However, the promotion of well-being need not imply quasi-clinical ways of working. A call is made for more research and debate in the career guidance community as to the extent and implications of the potentially important relationship between career guidance and well-being.

A Study of Clinical Change in Individual Career Counseling

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Health inequality and careers

“…(Roberts, 2005, p. 130) This accusation of impotence may be overstated. Drawing on career theory, it is possible to construct a sound rationale underpinning the claim that employment support interventions may have positive effects on mental health (Robertson, 2013a). From a perspective of contemporary career theory several approaches seek to reconcile the importance of social structures with the possibility of human agency.…”

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