Career Development Interventions, 5th edition

For career counseling courses.

A practical, straightforward approach to the competencies required of today's professional career counselors
Career Development Interventions presents theories, assessments, planning tools, resources, and technologies relevant to modern career development in a practical approach that shows theory and research in action. With four chapters devoted to career development in educational settings, it analyzes the various aspects of career development interventions for the elementary, middle and high school, higher education, and community audiences, and provides strategies for implementing career counseling techniques and creating and designing career development programs. The 6th Edition reflects cutting-edge research, trends, and pedagogy, including an enhanced focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion topics; the implications of COVID-19 on career choice and development; additional case studies representing clients from diverse backgrounds; and updated statistics.

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A Learning Management System (LMS)-Compatible Assessment Bank provides instructors with a streamlined way to import, assign, and grade learning outcome quizzes, application exercises, and chapter tests in Blackboard Learn™, Canvas™, Brightspace® by D2L®, and Moodle. Learning outcomes quizzes and application exercises are aligned to CACREP standards, and a standards map is available in the Instructor's Manual.

• Chapter-length coverage of culturally competent career counseling—Chapter 4: Providing Culturally Competent Career Development Interventions.
• Chapter-length coverage of ethics in career counseling—Chapter 15: Ethical Issues in Career Development Interventions.

• Strong and persistent focus on the application. See for example Recommendations for Culturally Effective Career Counseling (pp. 121-123), Relationship of Assessment to the Career Planning Process (pp. 129-132), and Helping Clients Turn Data into Information (pp. 175-178). 

• Case studies with questions to scaffold reflection. These appear in every chapter. See pages 95-96, 155, and 179 for examples. 

Also available with MyCounselingLab^®

This title is also available with MyCounselingLab–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.

• Video- and Case-Based Exercises. Video- and Case-based Exercises introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. Students watch videos of actual client-therapist sessions or high-quality role-play scenarios featuring expert counselors. They are then guided in their analysis of the videos through a series of short-answer questions. These exercises help students develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to be effective counselors before they are in a critical situation with a real client.
• Licensure Quizzes. Automatically graded, multiple-choice Licensure Quizzes help students prepare for their certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their performance in the course.
• A Video Library. The Video Library provides more than 400 video clips of actual client-therapist sessions and high-quality role plays in a database organized by topic and searchable by keyword. The Video Library includes every video clip from the MyCounselingLab courses plus additional videos from Pearson’s extensive library of footage. Instructors can create additional assignments around the videos or use them for in-class activities. Students can expand their observation experiences to include other course areas and increase the amount of time they spend watching expert counselors in action.
• MyCounselingLab includes the Pearson eText version of the book, which integrates MyCounselingLab. See pages 93 and 123 for examples.

• The use of technology in career counseling and guidance—including the use of social media in job hunting—is covered in a revised and expanded Chapter 7, providing graduate students with job-seeking assistance for themselves, as well as advice about how to teach their clients to use this tool. See Chapter 7.
• A stronger emphasis on building and implementing career guidance programs at the elementary school level increases the book’s usefulness to counselors working in schools. See Chapter 10.

• Expansion of the research and work of recent theorists, with an eye toward their applicability for diverse populations. See Chapter 3.

• Incorporation of the 2016 CACREP Standards and the 2015 National Career Development Association Code of Ethics. The most current standards and codes are used throughout the text, but also see Appendices A and D.