Students and Auditors of the First Summer School

Ariane Froidevaux
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Ariane Froidevaux, MA, is a doctoral candidate, graduate teaching assistant and lecturer in the Institute of Psychology at University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her doctoral thesis aims to develop a relational perspective on identity challenge and adjustment during transition to retirement. Her main research question concerns how do retirees adjust to retirement transition; in particular, how do they adjust to the (partial) loss of their work-related identity? Her doctoral thesis relies on different insights from the relational perspective in career counselling (e.g., Blustein, 2011), positive psychology (i.e., subjective and psychological well-being; meaning in life), social identity theory (Tajfel, 1978), and work psychology literature on older workers (e.g., meaningful work). Her research interests include career counselling, late career development, interpersonal relationships and career transitions, work life balance, well-being and meaning in life. Her teaching focuses on diversity of professional fields in psychology; young psychologists' insertion in the job market; practice of general counselling techniques; practice of specific relational tools for career counselling; main issues of transition from work to retirement; and practice of career counselling with a senior population. She is a member of the State Vaud Association of Career Counselling Psychologists (AVPO), the US National Career Development Association (NCDA), and the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). She also works as a career counselor psychologist at the Counselling Service of University of Lausanne.