96149 - CAREER COUNSELING

Anno Accademico 2025/2026

  • Docente: Rita Chiesa
  • Crediti formativi: 4
  • SSD: M-PSI/06
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

By the end of the course, students will know the most relevant theories of career development, and some methods used in career interventions, with particular concern to career counseling.

Contenuti

The course has two main objectives:

  • presenting the main career development theoretical frameworks;
  • introducing different career intervention's modalities (main principles and tecniques): career counseling, coaching and outplacement .

Specifically, the course aims to improve the students' knowledges about the following contents:

  • How the current labour market uncertaintly impacts on career development;
  • Interpersonal differences in career self-management and competencies;
  • Career counselling: aims and techniques;
  • Career interventions in organizations: outplacement and coaching.

Testi/Bibliografia

  • De Vos, A., Van der Heijden, B. I. J. M., & Akkermans, J. (2020). Sustainable careers: Towards a conceptual model. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 117, Article 103196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.011 [https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.011]
  • Eggerth, D. E. (2008). From Theory of Work Adjustment to Person–Environment Correspondence Counseling: Vocational Psychology as Positive Psychology. Journal of Career Assessment, 16(1), 60-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072707305771
  • Haenggli, M., & Hirschi, A. (2020). Career Adaptability and Career Success in the Context of a Broader Career Resources Framework. Journal of Vocational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103414
  • Hirschi, A. (2012). The career resources model: an integrative framework for career counsellors. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 40(4), 369-383. doi:10.1080/03069885.2012.700506 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2012.700506]
  • Kruger, F., & Terblanche, N. (2024). The coaching flipside: Factors underlying unsuccessful workplace coaching interventions. Human Resource Development Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21548
  • Martin HJ, Lekan DF (2008), "Individual differences in outplacement success". Career Development International, Vol. 13 No. 5 pp. 425–439, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/13620430810891455
  • Savickas, M. L. (2021). Career construction theory and counseling model. In S. D. Brown & R.W. Lent (Eds), Career development and counseling: Putting theory and research to work (3rd. ed., pp. 165-199). John Wiley & Sons, Inc
  • Stoltz, K. B., & Young, T. L. (2013). Applications of Motivational Interviewing in career counseling: Facilitating career transition. Journal of Career Development, 40(4), 329–346. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845312455508 [https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1177/0894845312455508]

All the references (ebook and articles) are available through UNIBO library sources.

Metodi didattici

The course will combine traditional lectures to in-group discussions, case studies analyses and practical exercises.

The course is designed to be very interactive, based on students’ active participation. Therefore, students are requested to attend systematically all the lectures.

Exchange students, aiming to choose this course for their learning agreement, should carefully consider – in their own interest – that they are requested to attend the full course.

 

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The evaluation will be based on:

  • an individual paper (reflection paper on RBSE) of 2000-2500 words (up to 15 points)
  • a final exam (up to 15 points) based on the course content

The final grade will be from 0 to 30, 18 being the minimum passing grade.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

The slides presented during the lectures and additional materials will be made available on the virtual platform.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Rita Chiesa

SDGs

Parità di genere Lavoro dignitoso e crescita economica

L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.