Strengthening Mental Health Through Effective Career Development: A Practitioner's Guide

This book makes the case that career development practice is a mental health intervention, and provides skills and strategies to support career development practitioners in their work. It explores how practitioners do far more than help people prepare for, enter and navigate career pathways - they change people’s lives in ways that improve mental health and overall well-being. The guide shows ways to connect career development services to clients’ mental health concerns while working ethically and within the boundaries of competence and role. Practitioners will be equipped to improve their career development services, broaden their view of client concerns to include well-being outcomes as part of a whole-person approach to career/life planning, and strengthen their collaboration with healthcare service providers. The authors also emphasize their focus is mental health, not mental illness, and address this distinction in the book.Written by Dave Redekopp and Michael Huston of Canada’s L