a positive approach to career practice
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A Positive Approach to Career Practice
Julia Yates
Senior Lecturer
University of East London
When you are at your work best, what are you hoping for?
I hope that through their relationship with me, my clients
end up………..
Where will your clients end up?
despair adequatetotal
fulfilment
Positive subjective
experience, positive
individual traits and positive
institutions(Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).
Positive Psychology
Subjective
well-being
Flow
Flourishing
Mindfulness
Strengths
Post
traumatic
growth
Emotional
Intelligence
Self-
actualization
Fully-
functioning
person
Hedonism
Eudaimonic
happiness
Meditation
Goal setting
Motivation
theories
Confidence
Hope
Optimism
Enhanced personal qualities
Fulfilling careers
Fulfilling lives
Positive
Career
Psychology
Yates, 2015
Enhanced personal qualities
Fulfilling careers
Fulfilling lives
Positive
Career
Psychology
career
social
community
financial
physical
Rath and Harter, 2010
Five Pillars of Well-being
In fact…
‘People with high career
wellbeing are more than twice
as likely to be thriving in their
lives overall.’
Rath and Harter, 2010: 16
Enhanced personal qualities
Fulfilling careers
Fulfilling lives
Positive
Career
Psychology
SWB
Creativity
Social support
PersistenceAdaptability
Resilience
Deiner, 2001
Fredrickson, 2001
Bonniwell, 2012
Careers
Creativity
Social support
PersistenceAdaptability
Resilience
Kanfer et al., 2001
Bimrose and Hearne, 2012
Enhanced personal qualities
Fulfilling careers
Fulfilling lives
Positive
Career
Psychology
Enhanced personal qualities
Fulfilling careers
Fulfilling lives
Positive
Career
Psychology
Work Fulfilment
Rath, 2007
Rath and Harter, 2010
Littman-Ovadia & Davidovitch, 2010
Money, Hillendrasand and Da Camara, 2009
Positive psychology in career practice
• Strengths
• Solution focused coaching
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Career Confidence
A healthy dose of
pessimism is a good
thing
We should be a bit
sceptical about the
evidence
Resources
www.authentichappiness.com
www.positivepsychology.org.uk
www.cambridgewellbeing.org
www.centerforappreciativeinquiry.net
• Positive Psychology in a Nutshell by Illona Bonniwell
• Wellbeing: the five essential elements by Rath and Harter
• Positive psychology: theory, research and applications by Kate
Heffron and Illona Bonniwell
References• Bimrose, J., & Hearne, L. (2012). Resilience and career adaptability: Qualitative studies of adult career
counseling. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 81, 338-344.
• Bonniwell, I. (2010) Positive Psychology in a Nutshell London: Open University Press
• Diener, E., Lucas, E.L. and Oishi, S. (2001) Subjective well-being in C.R. Snyder and S.J. Lopez
Handbook of Positive Psychology New York: Oxford University Press
• Fredrickson, B.L. (2001) The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden and build
theory of positive emotions American Psychologist 56 218 - 226
• Kanfer, R., Wanberg, C.R. and Kantrowitz, T.M (2001) Job search and employment: a personality
motivation analysis and a meta-analytic review Journal of Applied Psychology 86(5) 837 – 855
• Littman-Ovadia, H., & Davidovitch, N. (2010). Effects of congruence and character-strength
deployment on work adjustment and well-being, in International Journal of Business and Social
Science, 1, 3, 138-146.
• Money, K, Hillenbrand, C. And da Camara, N. (2009) Putting positive psychology to work in
organisations, in Journal of General Management, 34 (3) 21 – 36
• Rath, T. (2007) StrengthsFinder 2.0, New York: Gallup Press
• Rath, T., & Harter, J. (2010). Wellbeing: The five essential elements. New York: Gallup Press.
• Stajkovic, A. D. (2006). Development of a core confidence-higher order construct. Journal of Applied
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