Career Counselling

<p>Due to the increasing demand for career guidance in recent years, career counsellors have been challenged to modernise their practice. As a response to the rapidly changing world of work, with more diverse client groups and more complex and challenging issues facing career counsellors, the field has moved strongly towards the greater adoption of constructivist approaches. The 2nd edition of this ground breaking book is a forward-looking guide, giving further insight into the constructivist approach for the 21st century by:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>providing a theoretical background to constructivism;</li> <p> </p> <li>alerting readers to a range of cultural considerations related to constructivist career counselling;</li> <p> </p> <li>outlining a range of constructivist approaches to career counselling;</li> <p> </p> <li>providing examples of practical applications of the constructivist approaches presented in the book; and</li> <p> </p> <li>assisting career counsellor educators, practitioners and students understand and implement constructivist approaches into their work.</li> </ul><p>With contributions from an internationally recognised panel of authors from ten different countries, <i>Career Counselling: Constructivist Approaches</i> treats career as a holistic concept in which work and personal life are inseparably intertwined, and individuals as experts in their own lives and in actively constructing their careers. Structured into four logical sections, this 2nd edition attests to the ongoing influence of constructivism internationally and the continued development and refinement of constructivist approaches to career counselling.</p><p>Career Counselling: Constructivist Approaches is essential reading for career counsellor educators, practitioners, researchers and students who want a refreshing insight into constructivist career counselling.</p> <p><strong>1 </strong>Constructivism: What does it mean for career counselling? <b>2</b> Working with storytellers: A metaphor for career counselling <b>3</b> Usefulness and truthfulness: Reviewing the limitations and promoting the benefits of constructivist approaches for career counselling <b>PART 2</b> Constructivism, Culture and Career Counselling <b>4</b> Career constructivism and culture: Deconstructing and reconstructing career counselling <b>5</b> Constructivist approaches to career counselling: A culture-infused perspective <b>6 </b>Implementing a qualitative (narrative) approach in cross-cultural career counselling <b>7</b> Contexts and circumstances: The cultural preparation process approach to career development <b>PART 3</b> Constructivist Approaches to Career Counselling <b>8</b> The storied approach <b>9</b> Active Engagement and the influence of constructivism <b>10</b> The Systems Theory Framework: A conceptual and practical map for story telling in career counselling <b>11 </b>Solution-focused career counselling <b>12</b> Sociodynamic career counselling: Constructivist practice of wisdom <b>13</b> Dialogical self: Co-investigator in career self-research <b>14</b> Exploring life and working experiences for self-construction <b>15</b> The theory and practice of career construction <b>16</b> Career counselling as and about goal-directed human action<b> 17</b> Chaos and constructivism: Counselling for career development in a complex and changing world <b>18</b> Constructivism in online career counselling <b>19 </b>Creativity and constructivist career counselling <b>PART 4</b> Constructivist Career Assessment <b>20</b> Qualitative career assessment <b>21 </b>Card sorts: A constructivist approach to career exploration<b> 22</b> Bridging quantitative and qualitative career assessment: The Integrative Structured Interview process <b>23</b> The rise of constructivist career counselling: A reflection</p>