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Authors: Norman C. Gyspers, Mary J. Heppner, Joseph A. Johnston *University of Missouri*

Career Counseling: Process, Issues, and Techniques illustrates how career counseling now, more than any other time in our history, must be a dynamic, creative, and highly individualized process. This text is designed to assist students in updating and adding to their skills and techniques in order to help them understand and interpret information gathered and behavior observed during career counseling. It will enable the reader to assist clients of all ages and circumstances to relate such information and behavior in their quest to achieve their career goals or resolve their career problems.

Features:

• Focuses on the process of career counseling and how this process can be helpful in expanding options and empowering life choices in diverse lifestyles.
• Describes the career counseling process from a life career development perspective with particular attention to diversity and gender.
• Presents women's and men's issues (Chapters 4 & 5) and focuses on empowering the life choices of people with disabilities (Chapter 6).

Table of Contents:

• Career Counseling in the 21st Century: Evolving Contexts, Challenges, and Concepts
1. Career Counseling: A Career Life Perspective
2. Helping Clients Understand and Respond to Changes in the Workplace and Family Life.
3. Empowering Life Choices: Career Counseling in Cultural Contexts.
4. The Gendered Context of Career Counseling: Empowering Women's Life Choices
5. The Gendered Context of Career Counseling: Empowering Men's Life Choices
6. Empowering the Life Choices of People with Disabilities Through Career Counseling
• Opening and Gathering Information Phases of the Career Counseling Process: Selecting Techniques and Instruments
1. Opening Phase of the Career Counseling Process: Forming the Working Alliance.
2. Life Career Assessment: A Structured Interview to Gather Client Information
3. Career Genogram: Gathering Information About Career-Family-Socialization Connections.
4. Gathering Client Information Using an Occupational Card Sort: Using Occupational Titles as Stimuli.
5. Gathering Client Information Using Selected Standardized Tests and Inventories: An in-depth Approach.
6. The Career Transition Inventory: A Tool for Uncovering Internal Resources and Barriers in Adulthood.
• Understanding and Interpreting Client Information and Forming Hypotheses Phases of the Career Counseling Process
1. Identifying and Analyzing Career Themes
2. Understanding and Working with Resistant Clients
• Taking Action, Using Information, Developing Career Goals and Plans of Action, and Evaluating Results and Closing the Relationship Phases of the Career Counseling Process.
1. Using Information in Career Counseling
2. Developing Career Goals and Plans of Action
3. Bringing Closure to Career Counseling

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