Psychology of Career Adaptability, Employability and Resilience

Prof. Maree is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria. His main research interests are career counseling, career construction (counseling), life design (counseling), emotional-social intelligence and social responsibility, and learning facilitation in mathematics. He links research results to appropriate career choices and to life designing.

• Part 1: Introduction.- Foreword.- Part 2: Conceptualising career adaptability, employability, and career resilience.- Career adaptability: Theory and philosophy.- The foundations of career resilience.- Life designing dialogues and resilience.- The importance of career adaptability, employability, and career resilience in designing a successful life.- Part 3: Assessing career adaptability and career resilience.- Assessing career adaptability.- Measuring employability.- Determining career resilience.- Part 4: Advancing career adaptability, employability, and career resilience in career counselling across the life-span.- Facilitating adaptability and resilience: Career counselling in resource-poor communities in South Africa.- Counselling adolescents to be career adaptable and career resilient.- Counselling young adults to become career adaptable and career resilient.- Counselling adults to become career adaptable and resilient.- Part 5: Utilising career adaptability, employability, and career resilience to manage transitions.- Drawing on career adaptability, employability and resilience to help children manage the early school years.- Using the dialogical concept of the “architecture of life space” in facilitating career adaptability, resilience and coping with transitions.- Career adaptability, employability, and career resilience in managing school-to-work transitions.- Part 6: Promoting the career adaptability, employability, and career resilience in special populations.- Promoting the career adaptability, employability, and career resilience in LGBT individuals.- Promoting the career adaptability, employability, and resilience of women.- Career adaptability, employability, and career resilience of Asian people.- Part 7: Drawing on career adaptability, employability, and career resilience to promote social justice.- Harnessing/ Utilizing life design to promote decent work.- Toward a career self-determination theory.- Utilizing career adaptability and career resilience to promote employability and decent work and alleviate poverty.- Career adaptability and context.- Relationship mapping for resilience and career adaptability in challenging contexts.- Career Adaptability and career resilience: the roadmap to work inclusion for individuals experiencing disability.- Fostering Career Adaptability and Resilience and Promoting Employability using Life Design Counseling.- Part 8: Epilogue.