Handbook of Life Design: From Practice to Theory and from Theory to Practice

Our lives and careers are becoming ever more unpredictable. The life-design paradigm described in detail in this ground-breaking handbook helps counselors and others meet people s increasing need to develop and manage their own lives and careers. Life-design interventions, suited to a wide variety of cultural settings, help individuals become actors in their own lives and careers by activating, stimulating, and developing their personal resources. This handbook first addresses life-design theory, then shows how to apply life designing to different age groups and with more at-risk people, and looks at how to train life-design counselors.

Laura Nota, PhD, is a professor of career construction and career counseling and psychological counseling for the inclusion of social disadvantage in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. She is the author of more than 150 scientific articles published in international and national journals as well as more than 10 books.


Jerome Rossier, PhD, is currently a full professor of vocational and counseling psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters mainly about vocational counseling, cross-cultural, and personality issues.