International Handbook of Career Guidance

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Contents:

• Introduction: An international handbook of career guidance

Part I Educational and Vocational Guidance in a Social Context

• Career guidance in a global world
• Social contexts for career guidance throughout the world
• Landscape with travellers: The context of careers in developed nations

Part II Theoretical Foundations

• Helping people choose jobs: A history of the guidance profession
• The big five career theories
• Recent developments in career theories: The influences of constructivism and convergence
• Decision-making models and career guidance
• A constructivist approach to ethically grounded vocational development interventions for young people
  
  
• Social contexts for career guidance throughout the world. Developmental-contextual perspectives on career across the lifespan
• Theories in cross-cultural contexts

Part III Educational and Vocational Guidance in Practice

• Career guidance and counselling in primary and secondary educational setting
• On the shop floor: Guidance in the workplace
• Career management: Taking control of the quality of work experiences
• Qualification standards for career practitioners
• The emergence of more dynamic counselling methods
• Career guidance and public policy
• Training career practitioners in the 21st century

Part IV Educational and Vocational Guidance with Specific Target Groups

• Guidance for girls and women
• Career guidance for persons with disabilities
• Career guidance with immigrants
• Coping with work and family role conflict: Career counselling considerations for women
• Career guidance for at risk young people: Constructing a way forward

Part V Testing and Assessment in Educational and Vocational Guidance

• Testing and assessment in an international context: Cross-and multi-cultural issues
• Career maturity assessment in an international context
• Interest assessment in an international context
• Assessment of values and role salience
• Cognitive measurement in career guidance
• Qualitative career assessment: A higher profile in the 21st century?
• Ethical issues in testing and assessment

Part VI Evaluation of Educational and Vocational Guidance

• Quantitative research synthesis: The use of Meta-Analysis in career guidance and vocational psychology
• Action theory: An integrative paradigm for research and evaluation in career
• Using longitudinal methodology in career guidance research
• Evaluation of career guidance programs

Conclusion

• An international and social perspective on career guidance

 

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