This recorded webinar series originally ran in 2021. It was informed by the CERIC-produced book Strengthening Mental Health Through Effective Career Development: A Practitioner's Guide, written by presenters Dave Redekopp & Michael Huston.
What you'll learn
Career intervention is mental health intervention, yet most career development practitioners and organizations do not explicitly target, improve, measure or report mental health improvements achieved by their services. By better understanding how career development contributes to mental health, you can improve and communicate these outcomes of your career services.
This recorded webinar series dives into strategies career practitioners can implement right away to help clients strengthen their mental health. It explores definitions, a career development effects framework, a stress intervention model, measurements and actionable strategies. Learn how to recognize, improve, evaluate and communicate the mental health impact of your work.
Understand the differences and connections between mental health and mental illness
Identify new ways you can immediately begin improving the mental health impact of your work
Determine how to work within ethical and professional boundaries
Gain practical methods to start measuring mental health outcomes
And much more!
Webinars Overview
Career development practice influences mental health directly and indirectly regardless of practitioners’ intentions. Through this webinar, you will:
- Understand the differences and connections between mental health and mental illness
- Learn from research about the interactions between career development, work, mental health and mental illness
- Apply the Career Development Effect Model and understand the main outcomes of career development interventions
- Recognize new ways to immediately improve the mental health impact of your work
Different career development interventions contribute to mental health in distinct ways, but all help clients manage stress. This webinar will:
- Show the relationship between stress and mental health
- Describe the three main ways that practitioners can help clients manage stress
- Show how to do so within your ethical, professional and role boundaries
- Emphasize the most important stress control area – coping competence – in career development work
You can intentionally use your interpersonal skills to achieve both career development and mental health outcomes for your clients. This webinar will cover:
- The key interpersonal skills needed for effective intervention
- The most overlooked yet powerful skills in career development intervention
- How to use these skills to incorporate mental health outcomes while also improving career development outcomes
- How to work within ethical and professional boundaries while incorporating mental health awareness and outcomes
The many contributions that practitioners make to client mental health have gone largely unnoticed by practitioners, their employers, funders and policymakers. In this webinar, you will learn:
- Straightforward and practical ways to begin measuring mental health outcomes
- How to use measurement data to communicate key messages to stakeholders
- Which stakeholders these outcomes should be communicated to and how
- Communication tools and strategies you can modify for your own purpose
A CERIC-VRA Partner Webinar Series
Price Includes
• 4 recorded webinars with 3 hours of total content to learn at your own pace
• A downloadable certificate upon completion
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Purchase the Series
$90.00
Meet the Presenters
Dave Redekopp is President of the Life-Role Development Group Ltd. and has been an avid champion of career development since 1988. He has received provincial and national awards in career development and is widely recognized in Canada as a thought leader in the field. Dave holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Alberta.
Michael Huston has been involved in the career development field as a counsellor, practitioner, trainer and counsellor educator since the early 1990s. He is a Registered Psychologist, Counsellor and Associate Professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, where he provides counselling addressing personal, educational and career-related concerns.
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About CERIC
CERIC is a charitable organization that is dedicated to the advancement of education, research and advocacy in career counselling and development. We fund projects and provide innovative resources and learning opportunities that build the knowledge and skills of diverse career and employment professionals.