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Career Health Institute

Advancing the science and practice of Career Health.

The Career Health Institute exists to advance a broader understanding of how careers shape psychological health, physical wellbeing, identity, relationships, and quality of life.

Knowledge about work and wellbeing is currently distributed across psychology, occupational health, medicine, organizational research, and career development. Each discipline holds part of the picture. The Institute's work is to help connect those parts — developing shared language, frameworks, measurement, and professional practices that treat career as a genuine determinant of health.

This is early, ongoing work. The intention is not to declare a finished field, but to help build one carefully, with research, clinical grounding, and collaboration.

Areas of work

Five areas of focus.

01

Research & Measurement

Developing and refining frameworks and assessment approaches — including the Career Distress Inventory (CDI) — to study how careers affect psychological health, physical wellbeing, identity, relationships, and quality of life.

02

Education & Professional Practice

Building educational offerings for psychologists, therapists, coaches, and other professionals who encounter career-related distress in their work. Professional Education in Career Health is planned to begin in January 2027.

03

Clinical Innovation

Developing clinically informed frameworks, language, and practice approaches for understanding career distress in high-functioning presentations.

04

Public Understanding

Writing, speaking, and publishing that make Career Health legible to the people living it — readers, professionals, leaders, and the wider public.

05

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Working with researchers and practitioners across psychology, occupational health, medicine, organizational science, and career development to connect knowledge that currently sits apart.

Current work

What is underway now

  • Continued development of the Career Distress Response framework and Career Identity Fusion.
  • Development and refinement of the Career Distress Inventory (CDI) as an educational and research instrument.
  • A forthcoming Career Distress assessment for the public, with a personalized educational report.
  • Professional Education in Career Health, planned to begin January 2027.
  • Writing and public education through the Career Health Journal.

Collaboration

Working together

The Institute welcomes conversation with researchers, clinicians, coaches, educators, and organizations who are working on adjacent questions — measurement, occupational health, identity and work, high-achiever populations, and the conditions that shape career wellbeing.

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