Career writing: Creative, expressive and reflective approaches to narrative identity formation in students in higher education

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-84

  Lengelle, Reinekke ^a   Meijers, Frans ^b   Poell, Rob ^c   Post, Mijke ^b  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Creative writing; Dialogical Self Theory; Expressive writing; Higher education; LIWC; Narrative career counseling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903734152     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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