Praise for the First Edition
`For those of you who wonder if the counselling approach is of much use
for career guidance, this book should be informative. The importance of
working with insight into client feelings is exemplified by insights
into the need to address and work through feelings so that blocks to
career interest and good decision-making can be overcome... The book
outlines basic counselling skills and more complex ones and many
straightforward exercises; ways of generating career options; career
drivers and satisfiers; decision-making exercises; and guidelines for
investigating careers... This text has made me more aware of the
importance of thinking in terms of counselling and group counselling in
the work I do relating to careers′ -
Guidance Matters
Career counselling is often mistakenly described as giving people advice
on finding the best career path. This fully revised and updated second
edition of Career Counselling explains what career counselling
actually is, why people seek it, and indicates the many contexts where
it is used. It describes in detail the skills, tools and techniques of
career counselling, useful to both professional career counsellors and
those for whom career counselling is just part of their work.
This practical guide examines the issues typically brought to career
counselling, and includes a completely new chapter on the role of career
counselling within organisations. Other areas covered include:
o the dilemmas of independent and in-house career counsellors
o screening and contracting
o ways of facilitating decision-making and managing `blocks′
o self-management and continuing professional development.
Career Counselling, Second Edition stresses the importance of
adopting a `whole person′ approach whilst maintaining a career focus.
Illustrated throughout by case studies from the authors′ experience, the
book draws on approaches ranging from the humanistic work of Carl Rogers
to solution-focused counselling. The book contains an invaluable
resources section and includes a brand new appendix containing
photocopiable exercises which practitioners and their clients can use in
conjunction with their counselling sessions.
Robert Nathan is Managing Director of Career Counselling Services,
London.