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Forty-three academics from the U.S., Canada, and Australia contribute 26 chapters providing graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in the field of career development and counseling with an up-to-date reference on scientifically based career theories and practices. Coverage includes major theories of career development, choice, and adjustment; cross-disciplinary informative research on occupational aspirations, job search success, job satisfaction, work performance, people with color, and women; assessment and occupational information; career interventions across the life span; and special needs and applications, including at-risk, work-bound, and intellectually-talented youth, and youth with disabilities. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Steven D. Brown, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Counseling Psychology at Loyola University in Chicago. Robert W. Lent, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland, College Park. They are the editors of the Handbook of Counseling Psychology (Wiley), now in its third edition.

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"This is a must-have for any researcher in vocational psychology or career counseling, or anyone who wishes to understand the empirical underpinnings of the practice of career counseling."
-Mark Pope, EdD
College of Education, University of Missouri - St. Louis
past president of the American Counseling Association

Today's career development professional must choose from a wide array of theories and practices in order to provide services for a diverse range of clients. Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work focuses on scientifically based career theories and practices, including those derived from research in other disciplines. Driven by the latest empirical and practical evidence, this text offers the most in-depth, far-reaching, and comprehensive career development and counseling resource available.

Career Development and Counseling includes coverage of:

Major theories of career development, choice, and adjustment
Informative research on occupational aspirations, job search success, job satisfaction, work performance, career development with people of color, and women's career development
Assessment of interests, needs and values, ability, and other important constructs
Occupational classification and sources of occupational information
Counseling for school-aged youth, diverse populations, choice-making, choice implementation, work adjustment, and retirement
Special needs and applications including those for at-risk, intellectually talented, and work-bound youth; people with disabilities; and individuals dealing with job loss, reentry, and career transitions
Edited bytwo of the leading figures in career development, and featuring contributions by many of the most well-regarded specialists in the field, Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work is the one book that every career counselor, vocational psychologist, and serious student of career development must have.

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ISBN: 0471288802
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pub. Date: October 2004
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Table of Contents

1	The Minnesota theory of work adjustment	3
2	Holland's theory of vocational personalities in work environments	24
3	The theory and practice of career construction	42
4	Applying Gottfredson's theory of circumscription and compromise in career guidance and counseling	71
5	A social cognitive view of career development and counseling	101
6	Occupational aspirations : constructs, meanings, and application	131
7	Job search success : a review and integration of the predictors, behaviors, and outcomes	155
8	Theories and research on job satisfaction	180
9	Work performance and careers	203
10	Career development in context : research with people of color	225
11	Women's career development	253
12	Assessment of interests	281
13	Assessment of needs and values	305
14	Ability assessment in career counseling	330
15	Beyond interests, needs/values, and abilities : assessing other important career constructs over the life span	353
16	Occupational classification and sources of occupational information	382
17	Promoting career development and aspirations in school-age youth	417
18	Counseling for career choice : implications for improving interventions and working with diverse populations	441
19	Counseling for choice implementation	466
20	Counseling for work adjustment	483
21	Counseling for retirement	506
22	Promoting the career development and academic achievement of at-risk youth : college access programs	525
23	Promoting the career potential of youth with disabilities	551
24	Broadening our understanding of work-bound youth : a challenge for career counseling	573
25	Blending promise with passion : best practices for counseling intellectually talented youth	600
26	Counseling for career transition : career pathing, job loss, and reentry	625

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