Specialisation in Guidance, professional development and active life

Contents

A1: The context of professional guidance in the 21st century
Analysis of the socio-economic and labor reality. Labor market and socio-economic dynamics. Contextual, institutional and community dimensions of professional guidance in the 21st century. Supply and demand, employment niches. Regional, national and European regulatory frameworks. Crisis, structural barriers, inequalities, discrimination. Empowerment, individual and collective emancipation. Social justice, green guidance.

A2: Participants in guidance processes
Needs, profiles and development pathways: Socio-professional trajectories, professional profiles, inequalities, continuities and discontinuities. Groups, needs, challenges and opportunities.

A3: Guidance methodology and ethical and quality criteria
The guidance process for emancipation. Professional guidance models in the 21st century: from adjustment to emancipation. Lifelong and lifewide guidance. Phases of the guidance process. Individual and group methodologies for guidance and support. Quality standards of guidance action. National and international benchmarks. The ethical dimension of guidance practice. Ethical criteria for regulating guidance from a professional and institutional perspective.

A4: Professional guidance strategies
Guidance action: Competencies to face structural barriers. Basic training, professional qualification and socio-labor insertion processes. Self-awareness and self-efficacy. Motivation, interests and expectations. Competency models. Interinstitutional and interprofessional collaboration for emancipation and active life.

A5: Practice in real contexts
Improving guidance competence (Cases, contexts and challenges): Challenge-based learning and its application to improving guidance practice: identification, analysis and definition of challenges. Contextualization, empathy and collaboration. Documentation, research and interdisciplinary work. Ideation, prototyping and design ofguidance and support solutions. Piloting and evaluation. From standards and criteria to the regulation of one's own professional practice.

A6: Final Evaluation
Application of guidance in specific professional contexts. Diagnosis of individuals, groups and institutional contexts. Design of critical guidance actions and programs contextualized in territories, groups and institutions. Analysis of one's own guidance competency profile. Identification of opportunities for sustainable optimization of one's professional practice. Personal improvement plan and its monitoring and supervision.

Specific skills

- KT01: Describe labor market dynamics within the current socioeconomic framework.
- KT02: Describe the guidance process for emancipation.
- KT03: Explain the key content for 21st-century career guidance.
- ST01: Interpret complex realities of unemployment, vulnerability, and exclusion based on conceptual and informational elements.
- ST02: Design guidance and support processes according to participant profiles and context.
- ST03: Apply analysis and action strategies specific to career guidance in diverse contexts.
- CT01: Justify the ethical framework and quality standards of guidance in a given work context.
- CT02: Generate innovative guidance proposals based on challenges arising from real contexts.
- CT03: Systematize one's own professional practice in a project, based on the training path and competency development.

Title obtained

Specialization Diploma in Guidance, Professional Development and Active Life