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.

• Introduction: Decent work, inclusion and sustainability PART 1 1. Integrating discursive validation in career counselling: an emancipatory strategy to foster decent working trajectories and social justice 2. Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action 3. Two-chair dialogue: an emotion-focused technique applied to career counselling 4. Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour 5. The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology 6. Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK PART 2 7. Rethinking the professionalism of career counsellors in the face of increasing vulnerability among young people linked to the crises of the Capitalocene 8. Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged 9. Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work 10. Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso 11. The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees 12. Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources 13. Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory Conclusion

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.

• Introduction: Decent work, inclusion and sustainability PART 1 1. Integrating discursive validation in career counselling: an emancipatory strategy to foster decent working trajectories and social justice 2. Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action 3. Two-chair dialogue: an emotion-focused technique applied to career counselling 4. Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour 5. The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology 6. Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK PART 2 7. Rethinking the professionalism of career counsellors in the face of increasing vulnerability among young people linked to the crises of the Capitalocene 8. Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged 9. Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work 10. Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso 11. The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees 12. Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources 13. Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory Conclusion

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.

• Introduction: Decent work, inclusion and sustainability PART 1 1. Integrating discursive validation in career counselling: an emancipatory strategy to foster decent working trajectories and social justice 2. Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action 3. Two-chair dialogue: an emotion-focused technique applied to career counselling 4. Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour 5. The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology 6. Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK PART 2 7. Rethinking the professionalism of career counsellors in the face of increasing vulnerability among young people linked to the crises of the Capitalocene 8. Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged 9. Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work 10. Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso 11. The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees 12. Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources 13. Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory Conclusion