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Counselling Toward Career Adaptability

The Charge of a New Era

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In this chapter, I first introduce the need for individuals to possess and develop career adaptability based on the new work paradigm. Within this new paradigm, I posit that stress may be prevalent due to the constant need for individuals to update skills and increase a personal competitive edge to remain employable. Next, I review briefly, the connection between career development and mental health and introduce stress coping as a construct that may help bridge the need to develop career adaptability in career clients. Subsequently, I support this view with a review of the research literature concerning career adaptability including research linking the construct to personality, optimism, proactive behaviors, and positive attitudes.

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    Kevin B. Stoltz

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Stoltz, K.B. (2015). Counselling Toward Career Adaptability. In: Maree, K., Fabio, A.D. (eds) Exploring New Horizons in Career Counselling. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-154-0_16

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