Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health write by Dawn R. Norris. This book was released on 2016-06-13. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health. Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job—what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. Norris highlights several specific challenges to identity that can occur. For instance, the way other people interact with the unemployed either helps them feel sure about who they are, or leads them to question their identities. Another identity threat happens when the unemployed no longer feel they are the same person they used to be. Norris also examines the importance of the subjective meaning people give to statuses, along with the strong influence of society’s expectations. For example, men in Norris’s study often used the stereotype of the “male breadwinner” to define who they were. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health describes various strategies to cope with identity loss, including “shifting” away from a work-related identity and instead emphasizing a nonwork identity (such as “a parent”), or conversely “sustaining” a work-related identity even though he or she is actually unemployed. Finally, Norris explores the social factors—often out of the control of unemployed people—that make these strategies possible or impossible. A compelling portrait of a little-studied aspect of the Great Recession, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the unemployed maintain their mental strength.
The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search
The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search write by Ute-Christine Klehe PhD. This book was released on 2018-05-08. The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Job search is and always has been an integral part of people's working lives. Whether one is brand new to the labor market or considered a mature, experienced worker, job seekers are regularly met with new challenges in a variety of organizational settings. Edited by Ute-Christine Klehe and Edwin A.J. van Hooft, The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search provides readers with one of the first comprehensive overviews of the latest research and empirical knowledge in the areas of job loss and job search. Multidisciplinary in nature, Klehe, van Hooft, and their contributing authors offer fascinating insight into the diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from which job loss and job search have been studied, such as psychology, sociology, labor studies, and economics. Discussing the antecedents and consequences of job loss, as well as outside circumstances that may necessitate a more rigorous job hunt, this Handbook presents in-depth and up-to-date knowledge on the methods and processes of this important time in one's life. Further, it examines the unique circumstances faced by different populations during their job search, such as those working job-to-job, the unemployed, mature job seekers, international job seekers, and temporary employed workers. Job loss and unemployment are among the worst stressors individuals can encounter during their lifetimes. As a result, this Handbook concludes with a discussion of the various types of interventions developed to aid the unemployed. Further, it offers readers important insights and identifies best practices for both scholars and practitioners working in the areas of job loss, unemployment, career transitions, outplacement, and job search.
Explore Your Career Identity
Explore Your Career Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explore Your Career Identity write by Annie Southern. This book was released on 2014-03-19. Explore Your Career Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Career theory today sees illness not as an abnormal event but as a probable event for many people. Even when one cannot work in paid employment due to mental illness, all the other aspects of one's life still work together to make up what is called one's life career. In the new millennium spiritual career development theory sees one's life being one's actual career. The idea of social progress and self-betterment has meant that, rather than lifelong unquestioned static work roles, the concept of 'career' – a sequence of jobs over a lifetime - has become the norm. This makes career planning important for an individual and it can often be a confusing process as we try to understand all of the influences that affect it. This workbook is for people with lived experience of mental illness. The lived experience of mental illness can make career development very difficult. Illness can lead to job loss and the need for unanticipated life transitions. This can lead to a need for career exploration as people recover. There are two parts to career exploration: exploring your identity in terms of career ('career identity') and opportunity exploration. This workbook (based on Dr Southern's 'Explore Your Career Identity' practical workbook) deals with career identity with a special focus on mental illness and helps you to develop hunches about the directions you might take in life after experiencing mental illness and reaching a level of recovery that means you are ready to engage in work and other aspects of your life-career again. It is not prescriptive and it does not aim to direct you towards a particular career. Rather the exercises in this workbook are to be used as prompts and insight generators to help you work out for yourself what direction to take. As Steve Jobs (US computer engineer & industrialist, 1955-2011) said: “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” This book helps you to explore your heart and use your intuition to discover your unique career identity. Good luck and have fun!
Perspectives On Loss
Perspectives On Loss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives On Loss write by John H. Harvey. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Perspectives On Loss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Losses are integral to the human experience, but they sometimes unfold in subtle ways. Loss is not just about death, but can encompass a number of situations, such as those gradual losses experienced by the elderly: loss of vision, mental capacity, or hope. Intended to stimulate ideas and research in the new area of psychological aspects of loss, this sourcebook collects the writing of a set of distinguished scholars representing psychology and related fields. The author presents a case for a broadly-construed field of loss-both personal and interpersonal-that would complement other fields such as death and dying, traumatology, and stress and coping. No other volume is as comprehensive in its treatment of this intriguing subject. The book begins with an introduction to the concept of loss and discusses the definition of the term and the salience of the topic in the general public in the 1990s. Contributors were chosen to represent some of the most interesting current work on different types of loss and adaptation in the whole of the social and behavioral sciences. Contents cover such diverse subjects as loss in intimate relationships, disability, chronic illness, genocide, sports, unemployment, and homelessness. The book concludes with a commentary section on loss theory and research.
Race, Identity and Work
Race, Identity and Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Identity and Work write by Ethel L. Mickey. This book was released on 2018-10-29. Race, Identity and Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing how racial minorities deal with identity in the workplace; how workers of color encounter exclusion, marginalization and sidelining; and strategies minority workers use to combat and change patterns of workplace inequality.
