1st Edition
Decent Work, Inclusion and Sustainability
This content-rich and inspirational book offers complementary theoretical and practical perspectives from detailed research and analysis of decent work, inclusion and sustainability issues in Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States and West Africa.
In today’s turbulent world marked by risk and uncertainty, the values of decent work, inclusion and sustainability are no longer a simple choice, but vital guiding principles that enable individuals, organisations, and governments to reimagine work as a source of dignity and purpose, even in the face of adversity. The thirteen chapters in this volume focus on effective ways to support individuals in their search for meaningful self-discovery and work within a career guidance and counselling context.
With a new chapter, conclusion, and a revised introduction, this book will be beneficial to students, researchers, teachers, policymakers, guidance and counselling practitioners who have an interest in decent work, inclusion and sustainability, human psychology, social science, behavioural science, youth work, public employment services, mental health and well-being, counselling, education, and community development. The other chapters were originally published in the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.
Introduction: Decent work, inclusion and sustainability
Deirdre Hughes and Maria Eduarda-Duarte
PART I
1. Integrating discursive validation in career counselling: an emancipatory strategy to foster decent working trajectories and social justice
Marcel Afonso Ribeiro
2. Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action
Richard A. Young, José Domene, L. Alejandra Botia, Mindy Ming-Jung Chiang, Matthew R Gendron and Kesha Pradhan
3. Two-chair dialogue: an emotion-focused technique applied to career counselling
Paulo Miguel Cardoso and Maria Eduarda-Duarte
4. Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour
Michael C. Cadaret and Paul J. Hartung
5. The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology
Nuala Whelan, Mary p. Murphy and Michale McGann
6. Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK
Deirdre Hughes, Chris Warhurst, Emma Benger and Mandy Ifans
PART II
7. Rethinking the professionalism of career counsellors in the face of increasing vulnerability among young people linked to the crises of the Capitalocene
Valerie Cohen-Scali
8. Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged
James P. Sampson and Ruby Toh
9. Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work
Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir
10. Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso
Jérôme Rossier and Abdoulaye Ouedraogo
11. The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees
Maria Cristina Ginevra, Ilaria Di Maggio, Sara Santilli and Laura Nota
12. Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources
Shagini Udayar, Laurence Fedrigo, Federico Durante, Eva Clot-Siegrist and Jonas Masdonati
13. Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory
Seth C. W. Hayden, Debra S. Osborn, Carley Peace and Robert Lange
Conclusion
Deirdre Hughes and Maria Eduarda-Duarte
Biography
Deirdre Hughes is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research (IER) in Coventry, England. She is an international careers practitioner, researcher, trainer, and senior policy adviser. For seven years, she led and co-edited an international series of Special Issue Journals on behalf of the British Journal for Guidance & Counselling. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen’s Honorary Medal (2012) for her services to lifelong guidance.
Maria Eduarda-Duarte is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Psychology, Portugal,where earlier she directed the Master Course in Psychology of Human Resources, Work, and Organizations. Her professional interests include career psychology theory and research, with special emphasis on issues relevant to adults and the world of work. She is a former President of the UNESCO Chair for Lifelong Guidance and Counselling at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
