Career Counseling : Holism, Diversity, and Strengths.
- 4th ed.
- 1 online resource (346 pages)
Career Counseling: Holism, Diversity, and Strengths -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- About the Contributors -- Part One: Career Counseling in the 21st Century: Evolving Contexts, Challenges, and Concepts -- Chapter 1: Career Counseling: A Life Career Development Perspective -- Career Counseling -- The Nature of Career Counseling -- The Structure of Career Counseling -- Life Career Development: A Holistic Perspective -- What Is Life Career Development? -- A Goal of Life Career Development- Creating Career Consciousness in Individuals -- Using Life Career Development in Career Counseling -- Implications for Career Counseling -- Prediction and Development -- Strengths and Deficits -- Stability and Change -- Ensuring Counselor Competence -- What Do We Know About Career Development and Career Counseling? -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 2: Ways of Understanding Career Behavior and Development: Selected Theories -- The Evolution of Our Understanding of Career Behavior and Development -- Observational Era -- Empirical Era -- Theoretical Era -- Selected Theories From the Modern and Postmodern Eras -- Modern Theories of Career Development -- Super's Life-Span, Life-Space Theory of Career Development -- Holland's Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments -- Schlossberg's Adult Career Development Transition Model -- Lent, Brown, and Hackett's Social Cognitive Career Theory -- The Happenstance Learning Theory -- Race/Gender Ecological Model of Career Development -- Postmodern Theories of Career Development -- Constructivism/Social Constructionism -- The Chaos Theory of Career Development -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 3: Empowering Life Choices: Career Counseling in the Contexts of Race and Class -- Definition of Terms -- The Birth of the Field -- Six Key Tenets. The Tenet of Universality -- The Tenet of Individualism and Autonomy -- The Tenet of Affluence -- The Tenet of the Structure of Opportunity Open to All Who Strive and the Myth of Meritocracy -- The Tenet of the Centrality of Work in People's Lives -- The Tenet of the Linearity, Progressiveness, and Rationality of the Career Development Process -- Demographic and Ethical Imperatives -- Individual Difference Variables: Worldview, Acculturation, and Racial and Ethnic Identity Development -- Worldview -- Acculturation -- Racial and Ethnic Identity Development -- The Career Counseling Process Through the Lens of Culture -- Phase 1: Client Goal or Problem Identification, Clarification, and Specification -- Phase 2: Client Goal or Problem Resolution -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 4: Empowering Women's Life Choices: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Orientation -- The Gendered Overlay: Sex Role Socialization in Childhood -- The Gendered Context of Adolescence -- The Gendered Workplace Context -- Gender-Specific Outcomes -- Limited Participation in Math Fields -- Lower Expectations for Success -- Lower Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Nontraditional Careers -- Family-Work Conflict or Mutual Enhancement -- Assessments and Techniques for Empowering Women's Choices -- Assessing Your Own Counseling Philosophy -- Helping Clients Acquire Information for Making Authentic Life Choices -- Valuing What Is Female: Integrating the Self-in-Relation Theory Into Career Counseling -- Competence in Working With Lesbian and Bisexual Women -- The Career Counseling Process: Placing Gender Issues Within the Existing Counseling Process -- Client Goal or Problem Identification, Clarification, and Specification -- Client Goal or Problem Resolution -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 5: Empowering Men's Life Choices: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Orientation. The Gendered Overlay: Sex Role Socialization in Childhood -- The Gendered Context of Adolescence -- The Gendered Workplace Context -- Men in Nontraditional Career Fields -- The Nontraditional Career Choices of Men of Color -- The Nontraditional Career Path of the Stay-at-Home Dad -- The Counselor Role With Male Clients -- The Relationship of Gender Role Ideologies to Stress and Coping -- Search for Meaning -- Themes in Men's Career Transition Experiences -- Assessments for Empowering Men's Choices -- Gender Role Conflict Scale -- Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory -- Masculine Gender Role Stress Scale -- Male Role Norms Scale -- Gender Role Journey Measure -- Strategies for Exploring Gender Role and Career Issues -- Expressiveness Training -- Gender-Focused Journal -- The Structure of Career Counseling: Placing Gender Issues Within the Counseling Process -- Client Goal or Problem Identification, Clarification, and Specification -- Client Goal or Problem Resolution -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 6: Facilitating the Career Development of Individuals With Disabilities Through Empowering Career Counseling -- Current Employment and Career Statuses of Individuals With Disabilities -- Specific Difficulties Faced by People With Disabilities -- Empowering Career Counseling -- An Empowerment Philosophy -- Applying the Career Counseling Structure to People With Disabilities -- Client Goal or Problem Identification, Clarification, and Specification -- Client Goal or Problem Resolution -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 7: Helping Clients Understand and Respond to Changes in the Workplace and Family Life -- Changes in the Workplace and in Family Life -- The Workplace -- Family Life -- Challenges and Consequences of Changing Workplace and Family Life -- Worker Role Loss -- Anger in the Workplace -- Bullying in the Workplace. Work-Family Relationships -- Responding to Workplace and Family Life Issues Through Career Counseling -- A Life Career Development Perspective -- Major Areas of Required Knowledge -- Learning About Labor Markets -- Combating Gender Stereotypes -- Reducing Racial and Ethnic Barriers -- Combating Barriers for People With Disabilities -- Dealing With Work-Family Problems -- A Checklist of Counselor Roles -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Part Two: Client Goal or Problem Identification, Clarification, and Specification -- Chapter 8: Opening Phase of the Career Counseling Process: Forming the Working Alliance -- The Working Alliance -- Establishing a Mutuality of Goals -- Finding Tasks in Support of the Working Alliance -- Working at Bonding as Part of the Alliance -- Building Successful Working Alliances -- A Counselor's Checklist on Building the Working Alliance -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 9: Identifying and Analyzing Life Career Themes -- What Are Life Career Themes? -- Steps Involved in Theme Identification and Analysis -- Some Points to Remember in Theme Identification and Analysis -- Interpretation: A Needed Skill in Theme Analysis -- Forming Tentative Hypotheses: Another Needed Skill in Theme Analysis -- Selected Sources of Vocabulary for Life Career Themes -- Vocational Personalities and Work Environments -- Transferable Skill Identification -- Combining Two Sources of Vocabulary for Life Career Themes -- Practice in Identifying Life Career Themes -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 10: Life Career Assessment: An Interview Framework to Help Clients Tell Their Stories -- Theoretical Foundation -- LCA Framework -- Career Assessment -- Typical Day -- Strengths and Obstacles -- Summary -- Some Closing Points -- Using Transitions -- Adapting the LCA for Use With Younger Clients -- Closing Thoughts -- References. Chapter 11: Career, Multicultural, Marital, and Military Family Genograms: Helping Clients Tell Their Stories About Their Career-Family Connections -- The Career Genogram -- Rationale -- Administration -- Career Genogram Commentary -- Additional Uses of the Genogram -- Multicultural Genogram -- Marital Genogram -- Military Family Genogram -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 12: Gathering Client Information Using an Occupational Card Sort: Using Occupational Titles as Stimuli -- Occupational Card Sorts -- Overview of Card Sorts -- General Benefits of Card Sorts -- The Case of Tanya -- The Missouri Occupational Card Sort -- Common Themes and Subthemes -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Appendix. Missouri Occupational Card Sort -- Chapter 13: Gathering Client Information Using Selected Standardized Tests and Inventories: An In-Depth Approach -- Finding the Right Standardized Tests -- Criteria for Choosing Assessments -- First Points to Consider: Validity and Reliability -- Other Points to Consider -- A Basic Battery of Career Assessment -- A Basic Interest Inventory: The SDS -- A Basic Measure of Personality -- A Measure of Aptitudes and Skills -- Other Supplementary Measures -- Bringing Test Data Together -- Integrating Test Data -- The Case of James -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 14: Assessments That Focus on Strengths and Positive Psychology: The Clifton StrengthsFinder and the INSIGHT Inventory -- The Clifton StrengthsFinder -- General Description -- Supporting Materials -- Development and Theory -- Using the Results -- The INSIGHT Inventory -- Development and Theory -- What the INSIGHT Inventory Assesses -- Reliability and Validity -- The Interpretive Booklet -- Online Versions -- Understanding the Four INSIGHT Inventory Traits -- Work Style and Personal Style Similarities and Differences. Using the INSIGHT Inventory in Career Coaching or Counseling.