Author: Amy Thul-Sigler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study was driven by concerns regarding an unstable economic and employment period as more adults are seeking career counseling to determine future occupational choices and decisions. Of importance, to the researcher, was exploring life roles, burdens, and resources and their impact an individual's ability to make career decisions. Duane Brown's Values-Based Career Counseling Approach (Brown, 1995)and Howard McClusky's Margin in Life Theory (McClusky, 1963) were the theoretical frameworks guiding the study's interventions. A quasi-experimental study was designed to focus on whether career indecision of adults could be reduced by participation in a series of values-based career webinars. Subjects were divided into three groups; one control and two treatments where the Career Decision Scale was administered as a pretest and posttest for the researcher to compare the mean uncertainty scores among the three groups. One treatment group received the values-based career webinar intervention and the second received an interest based career counseling intervention. The interventions consisted of three webinars spanning one hour each in length. Participants were also given the Margin in Life Scale simultaneously with the Career Decision Scale to understand current life burdens and resources. The study targeted alumni from The Pennsylvania State University. Sixty-seven participants persisted throughout the entire study which was voluntary. Participant's age and gender were obtained since previous literature describes both as having significant roles in the ability to make career decisions. The webinars acted as the independent variable while indecision scores obtained through the Career Decision Scale and marginal values scores obtained through the Margin in Life Scale were the dependent variables. Testing was completed using an ANCOVA, Tukey Pairwise and Pearson correlation. The main contributions that this study generated were: a) show statistical significance of career uncertainty decrease through use of the values-based career counseling intervention which is particularly useful to career counselors working with adults; b) recognize that an individual's age and gender can influence career decision making; c) understand the relationship between life burdens and resources and the ability to make a career decision. Insights were also gained in the areas of career education techniques as this study presented a unique way of facilitating career development through groups using online technology in the form of a webinar.
Author: W. Bruce Walsh Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317767357 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 327
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Keeping up with new developments in vocational psychology is important to both psychological practitioners and researchers. This volume is devoted to presenting and evaluating important advances in the field of career decision making, development, and maturity. More specifically, it identifies, reports, and evaluates significant contemporary developments in vocational psychology and provides both professional workers and students with an informed understanding of the progress taking place in the field. The history and theory of the assessment of career development and decison making are explored as well as advances in career planning systems. An expanded context for the study and evaluation of career development variables is also described.
Author: National Career Development Association (U.S.) Publisher: American Counseling Association ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 446
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This book contains 23 chapters organized into seven sections that center around the following themes: (1) theories and concepts; (2) strategies and methods; (3) target populations; (4) settings; (5) training programs; (6) evaluation and accountability; and (7) future trends. The following papers are included: "Adult Development Theories: Ways to Illuminate the Adult Experience" (Nancy K. Schlossberg); "Career Development Theories and Models" (Carole W. Minor); "Career Intervention and Counseling Theory for Adults: Toward a Consensus Model" (Arnold R. Spokane); "Principles of Program Development for Adult Career Development Programs" (H. Daniel Lea, Zandy Leibowitz); "Appraising Adults' Career Capabilities: Ability, Interest, and Personality" (John O. Crites); "Counseling Adults for Career Change" (Lawrence Brammer, Philip Abrego); "Systematic Career Guidance and Computer-Based Systems" (JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey); "A Multi-Strategy Approach to Career Planning" (Carol A. Blimline, David R. Schwandt); "Women's Career Development: Theory and Practice from a Feminist Perspective" (Louise F. Fitzgerald, Lauren M. Weitzman); "Adult Men's Career Transitions and Gender-Role Themes" (James M. O'Neil, Diane M. Fishman); "A Culturally Relevant Perspective for Understanding the Career Paths of Visible Rachial/Ethnic Group People" (Robert T. Carter, Donelda A. Cook); "Conjoint Career Counseling: Counseling Dual-Career Couples" (Lynne Binder Hazard, Diane Koslow); "Counseling Adults in Midlife Career Transitions" (Philip Abrego, Lawrence Brammer); "Career Counseling for the Mature Worker" (Geraldine M. Horton, Dennis W. Engels); "Preretirement Programming: Needs and Responses" (Bruce R. Fretz, Marilyn W. Merikangas); "Career Planning and Development in Organizations" (Peter C. Cairo); "A Coming of Age: Addressing the Career Development Needs of Adult Students in University Settings" (Dennis L. Keierleber, L. Sunny Hansen); "Community-Based Adult Career Counseling" (Jane Goodman, Elinor Waters); "Career Counseling Adults in a Community College Setting" (Patricia Haskell, Nancy Wiener); "The Career Development Professional of the 1990s: A Training Model" (Janice M. Chiappone); "Training Professionals for Career Development Responsibilities in Business and Industry: An Update" (Martin Gerstein); "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adult Career Development Programs: Key Concepts and Issues" (Michael T. Brown, Robert B. Bhaerman, Robert Campbell); and "Adult Career Development in an Uncertain Future" (Donald E. Super). (KC)
Author: Steven D. Brown Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 111958034X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 848
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Discover comprehensive coverage of leading research and theory in career psychology with the newest edition of a canonical work The newly revised and thoroughly updated third edition of Career Development and Counseling retains many features of the celebrated second edition, including in-depth coverage of major theories of career development, interventions and assessment systems across the life span, and the roles of diversity, individual differences, and social factors in career development. This new edition also covers essential new material on emerging topics like: The future of work and preparing people for work in the new economy The psychology of working theory Working with older adults and retirees Working with the unemployed and underemployed Calling, work meaning, career adaptability, and volition This book illuminates scientifically informed career practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, engaging readers with concrete strategies and practical tips for working with clients of all kinds. Drawing on vocational, industrial, organizational, and personality psychology, Career Development and Counseling is ideal for graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels in counseling, counseling psychology, counselor education, and educational psychology.
Author: Valérie Cohen-Scali Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319919687 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 333
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This book is the product of a series of reflections by career counseling and guidance specialists on a question central to society: "How can career and life design interventions contribute to fair and sustainable development and to the implementation of decent work all over the world? ". This question was formulated by Professor J. Guichard, the director of the UNESCO Chair in Lifelong Guidance and counseling at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. The researchers involved in this Chair’s activities proposed answers which form the chapters of this book. These reflections emphasize the need to focus on the study and implementation of certain central psychological processes which can enable individuals to face the main challenges of our society. The contributions also propose new avenues of intervention for career counseling and guidance. The entire book is the bedrock of a program of research and interventions to be implemented in order that the field of career counseling and guidance plays a key role for individuals who must design their lives in a rapidly changing, and ever more complex context. This book is therefore a major scientific contribution and marks a turning point for researchers and practitioners in career counseling and guidance, and for all professionals who support the self-construction of individuals in the 21st century. "The authors draw on a diverse range of disciplines and research traditions and offer readers a rich array of insights, helping them reflect on how career guidance can be mobilised to serve citizens in a world that is increasingly challenged by complex, seemingly intractable problems. A central, crosscutting concern is the ways in which career guidance can foster well-being by facilitating access to meaningful and fulfilling work in contexts that promote equity, social justice, and dignity for all. While engaging the micro-worlds of individuals, and throwing light on their valiant efforts to design a life that realises their hopes and aspirations, it is a commendable feature of many of these papers that they do not eschew the societal – indeed planetary – stage across which personal dramas are enacted.” Prof. Ronald G. Sultana, Director, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, University of Malta. "The primary strengths.....are the authors' capacity to provide forward thinking perspectives on the important issue of sustainable lifelong interventions and career design in its broadest sense. The volume offers depth in a way of thinking that is pertinent to the 21st century and provokes both an in interest in the further study of this domain as well as providing tools and references for novice and experienced researchers and professionals. The book is sure to become a major text in the field." Prof. Maurice Taylor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada
Author: Lindsay Noelle Oishi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Career development is an important part of emerging adulthood, the period when 18- to 30-year-olds in modern societies explore possible roles, occupations and lifestyles (Arnett, 2000). To date, most theories and interventions have focused on career decision-making (Betz, 2007); however, for emerging adults embarking on the school-to-work transition, making a single, final career decision can be a source of anxiety and depression (Rottinghaus, Jenkins & Jantzer, 2009). This study investigated the effects of a course on career development for undergraduate juniors and seniors, which used an innovative "design thinking" curriculum to help students plan creatively for life after college. The intervention was hypothesized to increase students' career development agency, a new construct based on Bandura's (1989) theory of how individuals think and act intentionally. The intervention was also hypothesized to decrease participants' psychological distress related to career concerns. The study used a quasi-experimental approach with an intervention (treatment) condition and two comparison conditions, one consisting of college students who applied for the treatment but were waitlisted, and another drawn from the general student body. An online questionnaire was administered at the beginning and after the end of the ten-week academic quarter. A multivariate analysis of variance with repeated measures showed that class participants (n = 42) increased in career development self-efficacy, and moderately decreased in career-related negative affect. The comparison conditions (n = 62) did not show these outcomes. Students in the comparison conditions also reported a rise in dysfunctional career-related beliefs, which their peers in the class did not experience. Importantly, course participants' levels of career uncertainty did not change, on average, nor did they report changes in stressful life events or situations. The effect of the intervention was not to promote career decision-making, but rather to build self-confidence through productive action, and counteract common myths about career issues in emerging adulthood. Finally, regression analyses indicated that factors of career development agency (self-efficacy and contextual stressors) were more directly predictive of career-related negative affect than career uncertainty.
Author: Steven D. Brown Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118428846 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 673
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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 by two 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.
Author: Margo A. Jackson Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538124904 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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Career development interventions can serve as one means to constructively address the problems of inequitable access to educational and occupational options and achievement that promote health and well-being across the lifespan. Career Development Interventions for Social Justice: Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts offers practical examples of career development interventions that may be adapted to constructively address social justice needs at various points across the lifespan (ranging from elementary school ages to older adults) in educational, community, and employment contexts. Tailored to the needs and context of a specific underserved group of individuals, each intervention integrates relevant career development theory, research, ethical considerations, elements of sound program design and evaluation, and professional competencies for best practices in multicultural career counseling and social justice advocacy. Unique to this book are the contributions of authors, including practicing professional counselors and psychologists, who share their personal reflections of self-awareness from privileged and marginalized identities regarding potential biases and resources of relevance to their chapter’s intervention. In the process of designing and providing career development services for individuals from marginalized groups, it is imperative for counselors to continually reflect on and consult about their own biases and resources for empathic understanding and effectiveness with those whom we serve.
Author: Amy Thul-Sigler
Author: W. Bruce Walsh
Author: Jennifer Warr Doyle
Author: Arnold R. Spokane
Author: National Career Development Association (U.S.)
Author: Steven D. Brown
Author: Valérie Cohen-Scali
Author: Lindsay Noelle Oishi
Author: Steven D. Brown
Author: Margo A. Jackson