Handbook of Career Development, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
International Perspectives
International and Cultural Psychology Series

Coordinators: Arulmani Gideon, Bakshi Anuradha J., Leong Frederick T. L., Watts A. G.

Language: English

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This book is focused on work, occupation and career development: themes that are fundamental to a wide range of human activities and relevant across all cultures. Yet theorizing and model building about this most ubiquitous of human activities from international perspectives have not been vigorous. An examination of the literature pertaining to career development, counseling and guidance that has developed over the last fifty years reveals theorizing and model building have been largely dominated by Western epistemologies, some of the largest workforces in the world are in the developing world. Career guidance is rapidly emerging as a strongly felt need in these contexts. If more relevant models are to be developed, frameworks from other cultures and economies must be recognized as providing constructs that would offer a deeper understanding of career development. This does not mean that existing ideas are to be discarded. Instead, an integrative approach that blends universal principles with particular needs could offer a framework for theorizing, research and practice that has wider relevance. The central objective of this handbook is to draw the wisdom and experiences of different cultures together to consider both universal and specific principles for career guidance and counseling that are socially and economically relevant to contemporary challenges and issues. This book is focused on extending existing concepts to broader contexts as well as introducing new concepts relevant to the discipline of career guidance and counseling.

The Manifestation of Career: Introduction and Overview.- Section 1: New Directions in Theoretical Perspectives for Career Development and Guidance.- New Trends in Theory Development in Career Psychology.- Context-Resonant Systems Perspectives in Career Theory.- Life Span Theory and Career Theories: Rapprochement or Estrangement?.- Indigenous Models of Career Development and Vocational Psychology.- The Cultural Preparation Process Model and Career Development.- Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas for Work, Career, and Life.- Section 2: The Person in Contexts across the Life Span.- Personality and Self: Multiple Frames of Reference for Career Service Professionals.- Parental Influences on Youth’s Career Construction.- The Interface between Positive Youth Development and Youth Career Development: New Avenues for Career Guidance Practice.- Mid-Career Progression and Development: The Role for Career Guidance and Counseling.- Section 3: Boom, Bust, and Suitability: Effective Career Preparation in a Volatile Labor Market.- Understanding the Labor Market: Implications for Career Counseling.- Labor Market and Career Development in the 21st Century.- Career Advice and Guidance in a World where Vocational Skills Matter.- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Career Guidance: The Interface.- Second Career: An Eventual Need in Today’s World.- Section 4: Making Our Careers Green: Work, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Justice.- Green Guidance.- Career Guidance for Social Justice in Neoliberal Times.- Educational Inequality and Social Justice: Challenges for Career Guidance.- Career Guidance and Counseling in the Context of Unemployment and Vulnerability: A Case Study of South Africa.- Tensions in Livelihoods: A Rural Perspective.- Traditional Occupations in a Modern World: Career Guidance, Livelihood Planning, and Crafts in the Context of Globalization.- Section 5: Career Services: New Directions for Practice.- Telling Tales: Do Narrative Approaches for CareerCounseling Count?.- Mind the Twist in the Tale: The Story as a Channel for Culture-Resonant Career Counseling.- Enabling Culturally Sensitive Career Counseling through Critically Reflective Practice: The Role of Reflective Diaries in Personal and Professional Development.- Online Careers Work: Colonist or Inhabitant?.- Career Helplines: A Resource for Career Development.- Section 6: Innovations in Career Counseling: Services for Special Groups.- Special Educational Needs, Social Cognitive Environments, and Preparing for the World of Work.- “I Don’t Want to Make Candles!” Supporting the Career Development Needs of those Recovering from Mental Illnesses.- Career Counseling among Indigenous Peoples.- Older Women’s Retrospective Narratives of Their Work and Learning Pathways.- The Immigrant, Expatriate, and Repatriate Experience: How Career Professionals Can Smooth the Way?.- Should I Stay or Should I Go Home? Career Guidance with International Students.- Section 7: Career Services: New Directions for Assessment and Evaluation.- Assessment of Interest and Aptitude: A Methodologically-Integrated Approach.- Making Meaning of Quantitative Assessment in Career Counseling through a Story Telling Approach.- The Assessment of Quality of Working Life in Career Guidance and Counseling.- Evaluation of the Quality of Career Guidance Centers.- Demonstrating the Impact of Career Guidance.- Section 8: Career Services: New Directions for Counselor Training, Competencies, and Standards.- Career Counselor Competencies and Standards: Differences and Similarities across Countries.- Orienting Educators to Contemporary Ideas for Career Counseling: An Illustrative Example.- Training Career Practitioners: Opportunities and Challenges.

Gideon Arulmani Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with an M.Phil., in Medical and Social Psychology and a doctoral degree in Career Psychology from the University of Portsmouth, UK.  He is the Founder and Managing Trustee of The Promise Foundation, Bangalore, India.  His interests lie in the interdisciplinary understanding the human potential.  He has developed the Cultural Preparation Process Model of Career Development and formulated comprehensive culture-resonant systems of career counseling for India and other countries.  He has also developed curricula for capacity building at the certificate, masters, and doctoral levels.  He is the president of the Indian Association for Career and Livelihood Planning; a member of the Executive Board of International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance; an International Fellow of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research, USA; an International Fellow of the National Institute for Education and Counselling, Cambridge, UK; Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury Christ Church, UK; Visiting Professor at the Martin Luther Christian University, Meghalaya; and international consultant to a number of multilateral agencies.  He is a reviewer and associate editor for a wide range of journals of psychology and counseling.  His other interests include documentary film making, photography, folklore, historical fiction, craft, jewelry design, and wine making!  email: garulmani@t-p-f.org

Anuradha J. Bakshi Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Head of the Human Development Specialization at the Nirmala Niketan College of Home Science, University of Mumbai, India.  She is teaching in the B.S., M.S., and doctoral programs in Human Development.  She has been teaching at the university level for over 20 years, and has taught at multiple colleges and universities.  She also has extensive research experience, including coordination of national and international funded proj

Extends existing theory, models and methods into wider contexts Presents ideas pertaining to lesser explored aspects of career guidance Relevant to the wide range of newly emerging career counseling contexts around the world Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras