The Role of Work in People's Lives: Applied Career Counseling and Vocational Psychology / Edition 2

by Nadene Peterson, Roberto Cortez Gonzalez

Overview

Presenting a comprehensive overview of career counseling, THE ROLE OF WORK IN PEOPLE'S LIVES enables readers to effectively work with clients who are experiencing career-related issues. The text presents a survey of historical development and theories central to vocational psychology, incorporating the latest thinking and influences in the field. The text's unique emphasis on the role of work in people's lives and how it is influenced by family life cycles, the global economy, technology, and diversity awareness set it apart from other available books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780534641832
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	07/30/2004
Series:	Graduate Career Counseling Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Nadene Peterson is a professor at Our Lady of the Lake and Roberto Cortez Gonzalez is a professor at The University of Texas at El Paso. They are both active members in ACA and APA and the career divisions within each organization. Both present regularly in regional, national and international forums and are becoming known as authorities on career counseling.

Table of Contents

1. Current Perspectives on Work. 2. Values, Ethics, Meaning, and Spirituality in the Workplace. 3. Perspectives on the Career Counselor Role: Present and Past. 4. Trait-Factor, Psychodynamic, Existential, and Person-Centered Theories. 5. Development Perspectives. 6. Social Learning and Decision-Making Approaches. 7. Focus on Current Theories and Practices. 8. Family and Systemic Influences on Occupational Choice. 9. Career Counseling in the Schools. 10. Career Counseling For Adults -- Part I: Post-Secondary Education and Training. 11. Career Counseling for Adults -- Part II: Career Transitions. 12. Pulling it all Together for the Future.

Editorial Reviews

"This text provides a useful and progressive perspective of the construct of work as applied to all aspects of people's lives. The authors have provided a good base for the understanding of the world of work and have expanded that to interventions to help persons of various needs achieve direction in their vocational lives. Student's in any counselor education program will benefit from this text."

"This text is unique, not only in covering a broad range of theoretical approaches - including family, systemic, and multicultural influences - but also in proposing a new, expanded, and social justice understanding of the role of work in people's lives for vocational psychology and career counseling."

"A well written and comprehensive career counseling text that infuses a multicultural and global perspective on work and career throughout the text."

"An excellent text that provides a broad yet scholarly review of career theories and applications. This text would be a good choice for a first graduate course in career counseling. It is thoroughly researched and documented; it is thoughtfully and carefully crafted, and it incorporates an impressive array of complex issues relevant to career counseling."

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