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Career Interventions and Techniques: A Complete Guide for Human Service Professionals
Molly H Duggan
Jill C Jurgens

ISBN-10: 0205452388
ISBN-13: 9780205452385

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 512 pp
Published: 10/11/2006

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This unique text provides detailed information on career development interventions appropriate to use with some of the most common populations with whom entry-level human service professionals often work.

 

This practical and new all-in-one reference includes coverage of the historical perspective of career counseling, career development theories, career assessments, employment campaign, and program development/evaluation. The text explores  working with diverse populations, this new text allows students to see how to integrate these topics when developing their own personal approach to working with their clients. 

 

Twelve chapters provide detailed information on career development interventions appropriate to use with some of the most common populations with whom entry-level human service professionals often work. Each of these chapters includes a case study, a description of the population, barriers to career success, interventions, programs, a career counseling program model, and services specific to the population.  Finally, the text also explores special topics pertinent to entry-level human service professionals: ethical issues, workplace issues of the 21st century, maintaining balance, diversity, workplace safety, supervision, and technology.

  • Unique and comprehensive overview of historical, theoretical, and practical issues involved in career counseling allows students to better see how to integrate these topics when developing their own personal approach to working with their clients.
  • Population specific chapters include case studies, interventions, programs, a career development program model, and services specific to the population which provide students with concrete models for delivering career-related services.
  • Includes a chapter on various career-related assessments and inventories entry-level human service professionals are qualified to administer.
  • Each population specific chapter integrates physical and mental health issues with career development issues providing a “whole person approach” which allows students to see how physical health and mental health impact career decision-making.
  • The final two chapters of the text provide students with ideas and examples for working through ethical dilemmas and various workplace issues that are common in the human service profession.
  • The use of a family-systems approach with several populations helps students appreciate the impact that career issues have on the entire family, not just on the client.
  • Each chapter contains website resources students and instructors can peruse related websites for additional chapter-related information

Preface

 

I. Career Development and the World of Work.

 

 1. Career Development: A Lifelong Challenge.                   

 

 2. Theories of Career Development.

 

 3. Gathering Client Information: Career-Related Assessments.

 

 4. Career Information Sources and Resources.

 

 5. Initiating an Employment Campaign.

 

 6. Career Counseling Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.

 

II. Career Development and Diverse Populations.

 

 7. Single Parents and Displaced Homemakers: Entering the Workplace after a Break of Several Years.

 

 8. Welfare-to-Work Clients: Transition to Independence.

 

 9. The Working Poor: Poverty Despite a Paycheck.

 

10. Victims of Domestic Violence: Working Towards a New Life.

 

11. Displaced/Dislocated Workers: Through No Fault of Their Own.

 

12. Homeless: No Place to Call Their Own.

 

13. Older Workers: Choosing Work over Retirement.

 

14. Offenders and Ex-Offenders: Getting a Second Chance.

 

15. People with Physical and/or Mental Disabilities: An Empowerment Approach to Independence.

 

16. Clients and Chemical Dependency: A Fresh Start.

 

17. Veterans: After they Serve their Country.

 

18. The Newly Immigrated: Home Away from Home.

 

III. Special Topics for the Human Service Professional.

 

19. Ethical Issues in Providing Career Interventions.

 

20. Workplace Issues for the 21st Century.

 

Glossary.

 

Index.

Career Interventions and Techniques: A Complete Guide for Human Service Professionals, 1/E

Molly H Duggan
Jill C Jurgens

ISBN: 0205452388

 

“Refreshingly well-written and full of pertinent information and insight that informs the novice human services professional and refreshes the seasoned professional.”

-Warren R. Braden, Sr., Springfield College at Milwaukee

                                     

“An excellent tool for students… The Case Study provides the reader with an excellent study of a ‘real-life’ case that helps them apply the reading material to a real situation.”

-Susan Claxton, Floyd College

 

“[This book] has inspired me to develop a course specific to career development for my department.”

-Sandra Haynes, Metropolitan State College of Denver

 

 

 

This practical new reference provides detailed information on career development interventions appropriate for use with the populations with whom entry-level human services professionals often work.

 

Designed for associate- and bachelor-level professionals, the text explores unique topics, such as ethical issues, modern workplace issues, diversity, supervision, and technology. Each population-specific chapter includes a case study, a description of the population, discussion of the barriers to career success, a career counseling program model, and services specific to the population which provide students with concrete models for delivering services.

 

 

 

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