Outlining an approach to career counselling and a holistic model of human development, this book focuses on contextual issues like race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and social class. While basing its prescriptions on theoretical concerns, the book outlines practical techniques

Provides a practical, theory-based approach to career counseling based on a holistic model of human growth and development. Career Counseling: Process, Issues, and Techniques illustrates how career counseling now, more than at any other time in our history, must be a dynamic, creative and highly individualized process. This revised edition gives greater attention to the concepts of spirituality, social class, and sexual orientation as they influence individuals' career development. In addition, readers will find in-depth treatment of a variety of useful career counseling tools.

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
I. CAREER COUNSELING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: EVOLVING CONTEXTS, CHALLENGES, AND CONCEPTS.
1. Career Counseling: A Life Career Perspective.
2. Ways of Understanding Career Behavior: Selected Theories and Approaches.
3. Empowering Life Choices: Career Counseling in Cultural Contexts.
4. Empowering Women's Life Choices: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Orientation.
5. Empowering Men's Life Choices: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Orientation.
6. An Empowerment Approach to Career Counseling with People with Disabilities.
7. Helping Clients Understand and Respond to Changes in the Workplace and Family Life.
II. OPENING AND GATHERING INFORMATION PHASES OF THE CAREER COUNSELING PROCESS: SELECTED TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS.
8. Opening Phase of the Career Counseling Process: Forming the Working Alliance.
9. Life Career Assessment: A Structured Interview to Gather Client Information.
10. Career, Multicultural, and Marital Genograms: Gathering Information About Career-Family-Socialization Connections.
11. Gathering Client Information Using an Occupational Card Sort: Using Occupational Titles as Stimuli.
12. Gathering Client Information Using Selected Standardized Tests and Inventories: An In-Depth Approach.
13. The Career Transitions Inventory: A Tool for Uncovering Internal Resources and Barriers in Adulthood.
III. UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING CLIENT INFORMATION AND FORMING HYPOTHESES PHASES OF THE CAREER COUNSELING PROCESS.
14. Identifying and Analyzing Life Career Themes.
15. Understanding and Working with Resistant Clients.
IV. TAKING ACTION, USING INFORMATION, DEVELOPING CAREER GOALS AND PLANS OF ACTION AND EVALUATING RESULTS, AND CLOSING THE RELATIONSHIP PHASES OF THE CAREER COUNSELING PROCESS.
16. Using Information in Career Counseling.
17. Developing Plans of Action.
18. Bringing Closure to Career Counseling.
Name Index.
Subject Index.