International Handbook of Career Guidance

Offers broad coverage of career guidance issues Written by leading international authors Addresses each topic in depth Useful for teaching and research An acknowledged reference guide and leading text in the field

Auteur

James Athanasou is a psychologist and in private practice since the 1980s. He specialises only in medico-legal vocational assessment following personal injury and is cited in more than 14 reported judgements in the AustLii. He is also an Associate Professor (0.4) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, where he lectures in Applied Vocational Rehabilitation, Biopsychosocial Aspects of Disability and co-ordinates the Dissertation program. He is retiring in December 2018 but will continue in private practice and research on vocational interests and the return to work following accident or injury. He is an honorary professor in the Australian Collaboratory for Career Employability & Learning for Living at the University of Southern Queensland and a pro bono lecturer at the University of the Congo 'Agios Athanasios the Athonite'. He is the author of more than 10 books in education, rehabilitation and psychology and was previously editor of the Australian Journal of Career Development.

Dr. Harsha N. Perera, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he leads the Educational and Career Pathways Lab. His research centres on the social-cognitive-based motivational processes involved in educational choice and achievement. In addition, he has interests and expertise in advanced latent variable modelling methods, including latent variable approaches to validity assessment. Dr Perera serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, School Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Career Assessment, Frontiers in Psychology, Australian Journal of Career Development, and the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.

Contenu

1. Introduction: An International Handbook of Career Guidance; Harsha N. Perera & James A. Athanasou.- PART 1 - THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS .- 2. A history of career counselling; Mark L. Savickas & Suzanne Savickas.- 3. Major career theories: International and developmental perspectives; Cindy L. Juntunen, Thomas C. Motl, & Matthew Rozzi.- 4. Career theory for change: The influences of social constructionism and constructivism and convergence; Wendy Patton.- 5. Systems theory framework: A map for career theory, research and practice; Mary McMahon & Wendy Patton.- 6. Decision-making models and career guidance; Itamar Gati, Nimrod Levin, & Shiri Landman-Tal.- 7. A social cognitive view of career development and guidance; Steven D. Brown & Robert W. Lent.- 8. The psychology of working: Framework and theory; Kelsey L. Autin & Ryan D. Duffy.- 9. Career callings and career development; Bryan J. Dik, Kaitlyn Reed, Adelyn B. Shimizu, Dylan R. Marsh & Jessica L. Morsea.- PART 2 -CAREER GUIDANCE IN PRACTICE .- 10. From career development to career management: A positive prevention perspective; Annamaria Di Fabio.- 11. Career Success: Employability and the quality of work experiences; Annelies E.M. Van Vianen, Irene E. De Pater, & Paul T. Y. Preenen.- 12. Life design dialogues for self's construction; Jean Guichard & Jacques Pouyaud.- 13. Back to the future: Child career development; Mark Watson & Mary McMahon.- 14. Career preparedness in adolescents: An overview of empirical research and suggestions for practice; Rebekka S. Steiner, Julian Marciniak, Claire S. Johnston, & Andreas Hirschi.- 15. The career development of gifted students; Jae Yup Jung.- 16. Career guidance for children and youth with disabilities; Maria Cristina Ginevra, Laura Nota, Salvatore Soresi, Lea Ferrari & V. Scott Solberg.- 17. Career development of refugees; Hannes Zacher.- 18. Guidance for girls and women; Jenny Bimrose.- 19. Life design and people with experience of substance abuse; Ilaria Di Maggio, Sara Santilli, & Laura Nota.- 20. Late career development and retirement; Gabriela Topa & Carlos-Maria Alcover.- 21. The vocational psychology of agriculture: Fiat panis; Peter McIlveen & Nicole McDonald.- PART 3 - EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT .- 22. Globalisation: implications for careers and career guidance; Michelle Hood & Peter Creed.- 23. Living Systems Theory: Using a person-in-context behaviour episode unit of analysis in career guidance research and practice; Fred W. Vondracek, Erik J. Porfeli & Donald H. Ford.- 24. Career guidance and the Arab Mediterranean Countries: Epistemologies and practices from the global South; Ronald G. Sultana.- 25. Training career practitioners for the current context; Spencer G. Niles, Raimo Vuorinen & Azra Karajic.- 26. Contextualisation as a determining factor for career counselling throughout the world; Jacobus G. Maree.- PART 4 TESTING, ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATIONAL ANDVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE .- 27. International Career Assessment Using the Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Alexis Hanna, Christina Gregory, Phil M Lewis, & James Rounds.- 28. Testing and assessment in an international context: cross-and multi-cultural issues; Jérôme Rossier & M. Eduarda Duarte .- 29. Career maturity assessment in an international context; Mark B Watson.- 30. Interest assessment in a cross-cultural context; Chun Tao, Saurabh Gupta & Terence J. G. Tracey.- 31. Vocational interests: Revisiting assumptions about their development and what they predict; Kevin A. Hoff, Jessamyn G. Perlus, & James Rounds.- 32. Values and life role salience and their assessment in career counselling; Branimir verko, Toni Babarovi & Iva verko.- 33. Abuse and misuse of psychometrics as a threat to vocational psychology; Peter McIlveen & Harsha N. Perera.- 34. Qualitative career assessment: A higher profile in the 21 st century?; Mary McMahon.- 35. EthicalIssues in testing and assessment; Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss, Graham B. Stead & Chieh-Yu Liao.- 36. Person-centred research in vocational psychology: An overview and illustration; Harsha N. Perera, Danette Barber & Peter McIlveen.- 37. Action theory: An integrative paradigm for research and evaluation in career; Richard A. Young & Ladislav Valach.- 38. Evaluation of career guidance programs; Susan C. Whiston, Nancy G. Mitts & Yue Li. 39. Contemporary Issues for Career Guidance Concluding Comments; James A. Athanasou & Harsha N. Perera.

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