Self-help incentives and threats associated with vocational development

Abstract

The following article presents vocational development as a lifelong process and its connection to self-help via the European Qualification ramework and personal development. Instances of self-help strategies to augment vocational development are displayed, followed by a growing body of interdisciplinary evidence which brings new light on the problems that occur with self-help. It shows that self-help might help as well as harm. Finally, it brings attention to a demand for further studies about the threats associated with self-help and a need for a deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms.