List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Additional Cases
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Career Counseling: An Overview
2. The Use of Assessment in Career Counseling
3. The Case of Leslie
4. Gender-Aware and Feminist Approaches
5. Culturally Appropriate Career Counseling
6. Holland’s Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work
Environments
7. The Theory of Work Adjustment
8. Developmental Theories
9. Gottfredson’s Theory of Circumscription and Compromise
10. Social Cognitive Career Theory
11. Summary and Integration
References
Appendix A: Leslie’s Profiles
Appendix B: NCDA Code of Ethics
Index
About the Authors
Jane L. Swanson, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she served as Chair
of the Department of Psychology and Interim Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts. She received her PhD from the University of
Minnesota in 1986. She is a Fellow of the Society of
Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of the American Psychological
Association and has served as Chair of the Society for Vocational
Psychology and on the boards of the Society of Counseling
Psychology and the Association for Assessment and Research in
Counseling. Dr. Swanson has served on several journal
editorial boards and as Associate Editor of the Journal of
Vocational Behavior. She has published extensively on topics
related to career and vocational psychology, such as career
assessment, career barriers, measurement of vocational interests,
and career interventions. Dr. Swanson is also an experienced
career counselor and facilitator, including founding and directing
a university career counseling agency, developing and delivering
career interventions for high school students, and training and
supervising career counselors.
Nadya A. Fouad, PhD, ABPP, is the Mary and Ted Kellner Endowed
Chair of Educational Psychology and a University Distinguished
Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received
her Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota
in 1984. Her primary areas of interest are career development and
career choices of women and of racial and ethnic minorities;
cross-cultural vocational assessment; interest measurement;
cross-cultural counseling; race and ethnicity, and competencies in
training. Dr. Fouad is the editor of the Journal of
Vocational Behavior. She is a past editor of the Counseling
Psychologist, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal
of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Career Assessment, Journal of
Counseling Psychology, and Career Development Quarterly. She
currently serves on the National Academy of Engineering’s Workforce
Development Workgroup. Dr. Fouad is past president of The
Society of Counseling Psychology (17) of the American Psychological
Association, past chair of the Council of Counseling Psychology
Training Programs, past chair of the Board of Educational Affairs
of the American Psychological Association, and is past Chair of the
APA Ethics Committee. She is the 2017 recipient of the
Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime of Achievement in Counseling
Psychology, the 2014 Society of Vocational Psychology Distinguished
Achievement Award, the 2013 Council of Counseling Psychology
Training Programs Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2010 Paul Nelson
Award, the 2009 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to
Education and Training, the 2009 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring
& Scholarship, and the 2003 APA Division 17 John Holland Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Career and Personality Research.
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