Career Counseling: Process, Issues, and Techniques

With the current surge in the job industry and the advances in technology, career counseling now, more than ever, must be a dynamic, creative, and highly individualized process. The purpose is to help career counselors expand and extend their vision of career counseling and the skills and techniques in their career counseling repertoire. KEY TOPICS: This book will enable readers to assist clients of all ages and circumstances relate information about values, beliefs, attitudes, etc. in their quest to achieve career goals or resolve their career problems. With the current working population as diverse as it is, the authors focus particular attention on how the career counseling process can be helpful in expanding options and empowering the authentic life choices of women, men, racial and ethnic minorities, non-ethnic minorities such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients and individuals with disabilities. Designed for several groups of readers, this book is for practicing counselors, counselors-in-training, and anyone considering a change in careers.