Mapping Career Counseling Interventions: A Guide for Career Practitioners

Mapping Career Counseling Interventions offers a comprehensive guide to identifying and resolving career management problems, with 63 frequent difficulties linked to 160 qualitative interventions and solutions. It provides practical advice for conducting targeted interventions based on vocational, motivational, and positive psychology, and includes an inventory and card sort to facilitate obstacle identification. This book is a valuable resource for career development practitioners across different audiences and work settings.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Mapping Career Counseling Interventions offers an innovative approach to identifying and resolving issues within career management. In recent years, a multitude of counseling tools has been developed to ensure practitioners can provide the most appropriate support possible. To guide the selection of these tools, this book presents a comprehensive map that introduces and links 63 frequent career management difficulties with over 160 qualitative interventions and solutions.

Through its well-organized layout and extensive detail, the book delves into major career management challenges, including lack of motivation, indecisiveness, dysfunctional beliefs, lack of information, conflicts, and lack of employability. These difficulties are scrutinized and divided into specific, more manageable sub-difficulties. Targeted interventions to address each of these challenges, originating from vocational, motivational, and positive psychology, are then suggested and described. From these conclusions, the book provides practical advice to help conduct these interventions in a sensitive and respectful manner.

Overall, this book outlines the most effective ways to foster a strong working alliance. One of the book's standout features is its inclusion of an inventory and card sort to facilitate the identification of obstacles to professional choice and career management.

This book is a vital resource for the vast and diverse community of career development practitioners, including career counselors, career advisors, employment counselors, and career coaches, regardless of their specific audience and work settings.

Weight: 620g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032212265