title: [Occupational choice and biography - biographical diagnostics as an approach to accessing the individual's perceptual horizons and resources in the context of vocational rehabilitation].
abstract: This contribution is focused on the core tenet that the process of choice of occupation must encompass in its everyday routines the disabled person's biography, his or her life experiences, biographical self-appraisals as well as action orientations. Unless this is achieved, its professional strategies and interventions will remain prone to missing, or even counteracting, the biographical resources as well as thinking and perceptions of its clients. Biographical Diagnostics is presented here as a method seeking to access the individual in the process of choice of occupation in an understanding manner. It constitutes a new concept in terms of a biography-based, hermeneutic case approach conceived for implementation in the everyday routines of vocational rehabilitation. Two case examples serve to explicate the method of Biographical Diagnostics and set out the relevancy of a biographical orientation in the process of occupational choice.
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitationszentrum Stephanuswerk Isny, Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dern
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hanses
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D019090:Case Management; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D014830:Vocational Guidance