Steven D. Brown - Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work

1. Chapter 2
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 6
4. Chapter 16
5. Chapter 17
6. Chapter 22
7. Chapter 23

1. Chapter 2
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 5
5. Chapter 7
6. Chapter 8
7. Chapter 17
8. Chapter 19
9. Chapter 20
10. Chapter 21

Third Edition

Edited by

Steven D. Brown

Robert W. Lent

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Brown, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1947 | Lent, Robert W. (Robert William), 1953

Title: Career development and counseling : putting theory and research to work / edited by Steven D. Brown, Robert W. Lent.

Description: Third Edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, 2020. | Revised edition of Career development and counseling, c2013.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020023714 (print) | LCCN 2020023715 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119580355 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119580324 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119580348 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Career development. | Vocational guidance. | Counseling.

Classification: LCC HF5381 .C265273 2020 (print) | LCC HF5381 (ebook) | DDC 331.702dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020023714

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For Zack, Katie, and Jeremy

This edition of Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work, like the first and second editions, has as its primary goal the promotion of scientifically informed career practice. It is, therefore, intended to be helpful to a wide audience of students, practitioners, and researchers who are interested in basing their work on the best that our science has to offertheory and inquiry emanating directly from vocational psychology, career development, and related disciplines that can inform career practice.

This edition of the text maintains continuity with the first two editions in several ways. First, the opening chapter sets the table for the book by describing the terrain of career development, discussing the importance of contemporary career counseling, and offering a brief history of career science and practice. This chapter is intended to encourage students to see the unique role of work in people's lives, its interface with other life domains (e.g., family, education, leisure), and the value of assisting people to surmount hurdles to their occupational functioning. It is also intended to dispel myths and biases that sometimes surface regarding career counseling and to encourage a view of career development and counseling as vital, relevant areas of scholarship and practice.

Second, is devoted to major theories and emerging perspectives on career development, choice, and adjustment that (a) have either received direct empirical attention or are derived from other, wellstudied theories, and (b) have clear implications for practice. While the theories and perspectives we included have received varying amounts of research support, all have the potential to generate new empirical knowledge as well as practical applications. As in the previous editions, our goal was not to provide encyclopedic coverage of all available approaches, but rather to focus selectively on those that appear to be empirically viable and useful in practice.

Third, we have retained separate sections devoted to diversity and sociocultural factors ()topics that are mainstays of vocational psychology and career development. Fourth, we asked authors to be scientific and interdisciplinary in their coverageto highlight assessment devices, information tools, and interventions that have garnered some scientific support and that have clear implications for practiceand to incorporate literatures from other fields of inquiry (e.g., industrial/organizational psychology, personality psychology) that can inform career research and practice. Finally, we continued the tradition started in the second edition of highlighting practice implications of the material presented in each chapter. Thus, each chapter concludes with a set of takehome messages for practitioners.

The major changes in the book include the elimination of three chapters that appeared in the second edition to make room for four new chapters, each reflecting recent developments in the field: Psychology of Working Theory (). Topics from the three eliminated chapters (i.e., on adult career transitions, personality, and relational issues) were included, where relevant, in other chapters throughout the current edition.