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Career Development and Mental Health Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention for Children and Adolescents

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This chapter explores connections between youth career development and mental health assessment, prevention, and intervention for children and adolescents. After a brief historical review, we present a guiding framework—Lapan’s (Career development across the K-16 years: Bridging the present to satisfying and successful futures. American Counseling Association, 2004) Integrative Contextual Model (ICM) of Career Development—for fostering youth educational and career development in ways that promote well-being and psychological health and simultaneously establish preventative buffers against problematic mental health symptoms. We describe a clinical reasoning model based on ICM to guide assessment and intervention, touching briefly on its implications for general mental health. We illustrate our guiding framework and clinical reasoning model using a case example of a 17-year-old secondary school student striving to establish a sense of direction and, ultimately, a sense of purpose in school, work, and life.

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    Bryan J. Dik, Dylan R. Marsh & Alexandra J. Alayan

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Dik, B.J., Marsh, D.R., Alayan, A.J. (2022). Career Development and Mental Health Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention for Children and Adolescents. In: Andrews, J.J., Shaw, S.R., Domene, J.F., McMorris, C. (eds) Mental Health Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97208-0_18

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