Caree Development and Career Thoughts

Positive psychology, counseling psychology, and psychology of integration can form the basis for a new way of thinking about the development o and professional planning for individuals with disabilities. An examination of inmportant journals on career counseling, rehabilitation, and positive psychology showed that few researc studies are actually interested in career counseling and that little consideration has beeb given by vocational giudance practitioners to the problems perceived by individuals with disabilities. Refferin to the sociocognitive model, learning theory, and the more recent life design approach, this chapter focuses on the way people represent work and their own future and on how vocational guidance and disability experts could collaborate with these individuals to plan an adequate and satisfactory professional future for themselves,