Career Development : A Life-Span Developmental Approach.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Vocational Behavior and Career Development: An Introduction -- The Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2 The Concept of Development -- Issues in Defining the Term Development -- Philosophical Models of Development -- Mechanism, Organicism, Contextualism, and Issues of Development -- Developmental Contextualism -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 The Context of Career Development -- Contextual Affordances and Career Development -- Implications of an Ecology of Human Development for Career Development -- The Ecology of Career Development -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 A Life-Span Developmental Approach to Career Development -- The Life-Span View of Human Development -- Implications of the Propositions of the Life-Span Perspective -- A Goodness-of-Fit Model of Person-Context Relations -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Career Development: The Sample Case of Adolescence -- The Study of Career Development in Adolescence -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Toward a Methodological Agenda for the Study of Vocational Behavior and Career Development -- The Developmental Component: Methodological Issues and Options -- The Relational Component: Methodological Issues and Options -- The Contextual Component: Methodological Issues and Options -- The Combined Import of the Components of Our Model for Methodology -- An Empirical Illustration: Patterns of Short-Term Changes in Individuals' Work Values-P-Technique Factor Analyses of Intraindividual Variability -- Chapter 7 The Career Development of Women -- The Contextual Dimension of Womenʼs Careers -- The Developmental Dimension of Womenʼs Careers -- The Relational Dimension of Womenʼs Careers -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 Career Development and Health -- Work and Health -- Chapter 9 Intervention in Vocational Behavior and Career Development.

Human Development Intervention -- Vocational and Career Intervention as Human Development Intervention -- Understanding Normative and Nonnormative Influences on Vocational and Career Development -- Intervening in Vocational and Career Development -- Conclusions -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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