Life Design: A Paradigm for Career Intervention in the 21st Century

Mark L. Savickas,

Mark L. Savickas

Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

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Mark L. Savickas,

Mark L. Savickas

Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

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First published: 25 January 2012

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-6676.2012.00002.x

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concerning this article should be addressed to Mark L. Savickas, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, 4209 State Route 44, Rootstown, OH 44272-0095 (e-mail: [email protected]).

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Abstract

A new paradigm is implicit within the constructivist and narrative methods for career intervention that have emerged in the 21st century. This article makes that general pattern explicit by abstracting its key elements from the specific instances that substantiate the new conceptual model. The paradigm for life design interventions constructs career through small stories, reconstructs the stories into a life portrait, and coconstructs intentions that advance the career story into a new episode.

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