Contents Note: Each chapter concludes with a Summary, Study Outline: Key Terms and Concepts, Exercises, and References. I. Background for Understanding Career Services 1. Importance of Career Services Historical Perspectives Matching Approach Versus Career Identity and Development From Vocation to Career, from Single Choice to Development Career Issues in the New Millenium 2. Career Counseling: Structure and Competencies Career Development Emotional Processing Blocks to Career Counseling Competency Requirements for Career Counselors II. Career Counseling Theory and the Global Economy 3. The Career Diamond: A Teaching Tool Understanding the Career Diamond Using the Career Diamond with Clients 4. Career Theory: Holland Super Holland's Theory of Person-Environmental Fit Career Development and Super's Self-Expression Theory 5.
Career Theory: Krumboltz, Gottfredson Krumboltz--Social Learning Theory and Career Development Gottfredson--Circumspection and Compromise Lent, Brown, and Hackett--Social Cognitive Career Theory 6. Career Counseling for the Global Economy Global Economy's Impact on Career Strategies for Dealing with the Global Economy 7. Career Issues for a Diverse Workforce Increasing Cultural Sensitivity: Examining Persona-Societal Backgrounds Gender Issues and Career Sexual Orientation Family Issues and Career Boundary Issues Career and Crosscultural Issues Embedded Assumptions for the Career Counselor Brown's Theory of Crosscultural Values Acculturation and Racial Identity Development III. Career Counseling Skills 8. Career Counseling Process Classic Career Counseling Interaction Client Change 9. Career Counseling Techniques Techniques for Expanding Self-Awareness Identifying Skills Narrowing and Prioritizing 10. Assessment for Career Counseling Assessing Client Information To Test or Not to Test, That Is the Question Choosing Appropriate Instruments Interpreting Assessment Rules Assessment Example: Interpreting Results of Interest Inventories 11. Managing Career Information and Technology Evaluating Information Organizing Occupational Information Processing Information Career Resource Center: A Model Government Agencies' Information Other Informational Sources Career Counseling Online IV.
Career Development and Education 12. Career Development in Elementary School The National Career Development Guidelines (NOICC, 1992) and a Career Development Program for Kindergarden to Fifth Grade Learning about One's Self: Gender, Morals, Social Skills, and Self-Esteem/Efficacy Learning about the External World: Play Making Career Development Work in the School 13. Career Development in Middle School The National Career Development Guidelines (NOICC, 1992) and a Career Development Program for Middle School/Junior High (Grades 6-8) The First Diamond: Middle School Early Adolescence and the Internal Side of the Diamond Early Adolescence and the External Side of the Diamond 14. Career Development in High School and Late Adolescence/Young Adulthood Middle Adolescence: Ages 14-18 The National Career Development Guidelines (NOICC, 1992) and a Career Development Program for High School (Grades 9-12) Middle Adolescence and the Self Side of the Diamond Interaction of the Internal and External Middle Adolescence and the External Side of the Diamond Late Adolescence: Ages 18-25 V. Career Issues Across the Life-Span 15. Career Counseling for Adults Theory of Work Adjustment and Person-Environment-Correspondence Life T.