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Career self-management for the unemployed:
training psychologists in an intervention model

In Portugal, career counsellors perceive significant training needs in the context of career development
and counselling. Although online modality has gained expression as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,
there is still concern to prove its effectiveness.

In this context, during the Euroguidance Conference, The training model
this session aimed to present an online training model
(structure, goals and contents) designed to prepare The training model was based on the Socio-Cogni-
psychologists for immediate action in the field of a tive Career Theory (Lent & Brown, 2013) and on the
career intervention, as well as the results of a pilot assumptions of the Content-Process-Context Model
study on data before and during the training. The (Lent & Brown, 2020) - the main theoretical basis of the
Careers Project, a funded research-action project (run- intervention. Structured in four modules, divided into
ning from March 2021 to April 2023), aims to develop seven sessions of six hours each, it was undertaken
employability and career self-management resources online, with half of each session being synchronous
among people experiencing unemployment, in the learning. The training was accredited by the Portu-
Algarve region of Portugal. guese Psychologists’ Association, in the areas of Edu-

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