an article by Krista M. Chronister, Eliza Harley, Christina L. Aranda, Leah Barr and Paula Luginbuhl (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA) published in Journal of Career Development Volume 39 Number 6 (December 2012)
Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) costs women nearly 8 million days of paid work annually. Greater attention to violence survivors’ employment and career development can facilitate women escaping abusive relationships and promotes their overall rehabilitation and healing.
A first step to increasing attention to survivors’ career development includes collaborating with social service agencies in an effort to translate career intervention research findings into community-based practice.
The purpose of this article is to provide a description of an individual career counselling model that the authors use to serve women IPV survivors.
The authors review the structure of the service model, the theoretical and research foundations, and describe two case examples to highlight career counselling interventions relevant for women survivors.
Hazel’s comment:
The 8 million days are in the USA and I do not seem to be able to find a figure for the UK but this research underlines something that I learned very early on in my career as an adviser; you cannot move people on if there are mental health / trauma issues in their lives any more than you can get homeless people into work without addressing the underlying reasons for the homelessness.
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