The well-being outcomes of career guidance

Robertson, Peter J.

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.

Citation

Robertson, P. J. (2013). The well-being outcomes of career guidance. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 41(3), 254-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2013.773959

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 4, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Mar 19, 2013
• Publication Date: 2013-06
• Deposit Date: Sep 9, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 12, 2016
• Journal: British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
• Print ISSN: 0306-9885
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-3534
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 254-266
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2013.773959
• Keywords: career guidance, career counselling, positive psychology, emotions,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/377560