Person- and System-Focused Prevention in Preparing Youth to Navigate an Uncertain Work Future

Autor: Brenda W. Tsai, Maureen E. Kenny
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion. 1:155-182
ISSN: 2632-0789
2632-0770
DOI: 10.1177/2632077020965568
Popis: In this article, we discuss the integration of prevention science and vocational psychology for person- and system-focused prevention with a critical social justice agenda. More specifically, we focus on career development education as a potentially transformative primary prevention activity for increasing youth access to decent work and lives of well-being. We consider this as a critical agenda for two reasons. First, there are continued declines in the availability of decent work on a global level. In addition, youth who are marginalized by society are particularly vulnerable in competing for access to such dwindling opportunities and in thriving in communities and workplaces characterized by oppressive policies and practices. Building upon previous work in prevention and vocational psychology from a social justice perspective, we suggest that the psychology of working theory (PWT) can serve as a conceptual framework for developing and evaluating person- and system-focused preventive interventions that will address marginalization and seek to prepare all youth for an uncertain and shifting work future.
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