Life Design Counseling: Theory, Methodology, Challenges, and Future Trends.

Ya Wen,Huaruo Chen,Fei Liu,Kai Li

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.814458

Abstract

With the rapid development of society and the dramatic change of environment, previous career counseling focusing on personal choice has been difficult to meet individuals’ needs. It is very meaningful and valuable to introduce the ideology of Life Design Counseling (LDC). In this mini review, we introduce and analyze the theory and methodology of LDC. This review puts forward challenges in the field of LDC, including the lack of attention to clients from multiple backgrounds and professional counselors, the lack of diversified methods in the intervention process, and the lack of diversified research. The theoretical research, practical research, and the integration of theory and practice of LDC still need to be further concerned by researchers.

Highlights

The current living environment changes faster than ever before, resulting in the trend of personal career development from static and linear to dynamic and nonlinear
Life Design Counseling (LDC) practitioners need to creatively develop intervention methods, so that they can be applied to a wider range of clients, help them express themselves through narration, generate motivation for substantial change, discover life themes, find life goals and plan their own future
Life Design Counseling is a new form of career counseling in the VUCA era

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The current living environment changes faster than ever before, resulting in the trend of personal career development from static and linear to dynamic and nonlinear. Savickas et al (2009) proposed the third paradigm of career intervention, which is called the “Life Design Paradigm,” to deal with the drastic changes in the current social environment (Savickas et al, 2009) Based on this paradigm, Life Design Counseling (LDC) refers to a kind of counseling that helps clients define their career as a story, narrate their personal working life with continuity and coherence, discover life themes, create life meaning, construct identity, formulate adaptive actions, and pursue the life expected by individuals (Savickas and Pouyaud, 2016; Venter and Maree, 2020; Wong, 2021). These studies suggest that the impact of LDC on an individual’s career

Return to the Problem Coding

Improve intervention evaluation methods

Online and offline intervention

CONCLUSION