PSYCHOLOGY OF COUNSELING (Psychology Research Progress: Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Action)

This book deals increasingly with a significant challenge related to the development of virtuous circularity between scientifically based methodological frameworks and perspectives of interventions and innovation both on theoretical and applicative levels. The present volume is characterised by a review of current theoretical perspectives, research and intervention in the field of psychology of counselling according to an international point of view. This volume outlines potentialities and applications of psychology of counselling in different contexts and in wide-ranging international optics, such as prevention, a multicultural or colour-blind approach, application of emotional intelligence in counselling, family context, adaptive counselling, clinical, therapeutic, educational context, mediation, mortgage, taking into account individual well-being and life satisfaction. On the one hand this volume offers an overview of major theoretical perspectives for an in-depth reflection on psychology of counselling, and on the other hand could open new horizons of the discipline and new opportunities for intervention, implementing specific training for counsellors to develop effective skills, especially relying on scientific recent research and intervention outcomes. This work aims to further contribute to the study of the psychology of counselling as a discipline in constant evolution, able to identify new needs and challenges and answer effectively with innovative interventions and relation to social, economic and cultural changes of contemporary society. About the Author Annamaria Di Fabio is professor of Work and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Florence, Italy. She is Rector's Delegate for Psychological counseling in guidance and job placement and director of both the following International Research and Intervention Laboratories: Psychology for Vocational Guidance and Career Counseling (LabOProCCareer) and Positive Psychology and Prevention (PosPsyc&P). Her main research interests are: Work and Organizational Psychology, Personality and individual differences, Career and life counseling psychology, Vocational and educational guidance, Positive psychology and prevention, Effectiveness of intervention. Editor of Counseling Italian Journal of Research and Intervention and co-editor of Orientation Scolaire et Professionnelle, she has been the author of more than 140 peer reviewed articles and 60 books or chapters in books since the beginning of 1998. A regular keynote speaker, she was invited for a State-of-the-Science Lecture in Psychology of Counseling at the 30th International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in 2012 in South Africa and she was the co-president of the UNESCO Chair Conference in Florence (Italy) 2015.