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: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Mapping Career Counseling Interventions offers a groundbreaking 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 aid in selecting these tools, this book presents a comprehensive map that introduces and connects 63 frequent career management difficulties with over 160 qualitative interventions and solutions.

Through its meticulously organized layout and extensive depth, 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 categorized into specific, more manageable sub-difficulties. Targeted interventions to address each of these challenges, derived from vocational, motivational, and positive psychology, are proposed and described.

From these findings, the book provides practical guidance to facilitate the implementation of these interventions in a sensitive and respectful manner. Overall, this book outlines the most effective strategies to nurture a strong working alliance. One of the book's notable features is its inclusion of an inventory and card sort to facilitate the identification of obstacles to professional choice and career management.

This book serves as a vital resource for the expansive 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: 386g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032212289