Handbook of Career Development: International Perspectives (Hardcover, 2014)

The Manifestation of Career: Introduction and Overview.- Section 1: New Directions in Theoretical Perspectives for Career Development and Guidance.- New Trends in Theory Development in Career Psychology.- Context-Resonant Systems Perspectives in Career Theory.- Life Span Theory and Career Theories: Rapprochement or Estrangement?.- Indigenous Models of Career Development and Vocational Psychology.- The Cultural Preparation Process Model and Career Development.- Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas for Work, Career, and Life.- Section 2: The Person in Contexts across the Life Span.- Personality and Self: Multiple Frames of Reference for Career Service Professionals.- Parental Influences on Youth's Career Construction.- The Interface between Positive Youth Development and Youth Career Development: New Avenues for Career Guidance Practice.- Mid-Career Progression and Development: The Role for Career Guidance and Counseling.- Section 3: Boom, Bust, and Suitability: Effective Career Preparation in a Volatile Labor Market.- Understanding the Labor Market: Implications for Career Counseling.- Labor Market and Career Development in the 21st Century.- Career Advice and Guidance in a World where Vocational Skills Matter.- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Career Guidance: The Interface.- Second Career: An Eventual Need in Today's World.- Section 4: Making Our Careers Green: Work, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Justice.- Green Guidance.- Career Guidance for Social Justice in Neoliberal Times.- Educational Inequality and Social Justice: Challenges for Career Guidance.- Career Guidance and Counseling in the Context of Unemployment and Vulnerability: A Case Study of South Africa.- Tensions in Livelihoods: A Rural Perspective.- Traditional Occupations in a Modern World: Career Guidance, Livelihood Planning, and Crafts in the Context of Globalization.- Section 5: Career Services: New Directions for Practice.- Telling Tales: Do Narrative Approaches for Career Counseling Count?.- Mind the Twist in the Tale: The Story as a Channel for Culture-Resonant Career Counseling.- Enabling Culturally Sensitive Career Counseling through Critically Reflective Practice: The Role of Reflective Diaries in Personal and Professional Development.- Online Careers Work: Colonist or Inhabitant?.- Career Helplines: A Resource for Career Development.- Section 6: Innovations in Career Counseling: Services for Special Groups.- Special Educational Needs, Social Cognitive Environments, and Preparing for the World of Work.- "I Don't Want to Make Candles!" Supporting the Career Development Needs of those Recovering from Mental Illnesses.- Career Counseling among Indigenous Peoples.- Older Women's Retrospective Narratives of Their Work and Learning Pathways.- The Immigrant, Expatriate, and Repatriate Experience: How Career Professionals Can Smooth the Way?.- Should I Stay or Should I Go Home? Career Guidance with International Students.- Section 7: Career Services: New Directions for Assessment and Evaluation.- Assessment of Interest and Aptitude: A Methodologically-Integrated Approach.- Making Meaning of Quantitative Assessment in Career Counseling through a Story Telling Approach.- The Assessment of Quality of Working Life in Career Guidance and Counseling.- Evaluation of the Quality of Career Guidance Centers.- Demonstrating the Impact of Career Guidance.- Section 8: Career Services: New Directions for Counselor Training, Competencies, and Standards.- Career Counselor Competencies and Standards: Differences and Similarities across Countries.- Orienting Educators to Contemporary Ideas for Career Counseling: An Illustrative Example.- Training Career Practitioners: Opportunities and Challenges.