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Handbook of Career Counseling for Women » (1st Edition)

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Authors: W. Walsh (Editor), Mary J. Heppner (Editor), Mary Heppner
ISBN-13: 9780805848892, ISBN-10: 0805848894
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Erlbaum, Lawrence Associates, Inc.
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: W. Walsh

Book Synopsis

The goal of this book is to give career counselors knowledge awareness, and skills to work with diverse girls and women to make their lives as authentic, meaningful, and rewarding as they can possibly be. It is designed to help career counselors work with diverse girls and women as they pursue the ever widening choices in their lives. In addition, the text:

*focuses on the history of the field and provides the social-historical context for its development;
*discusses basic issues and concepts in the career development and counseling of women;
*discusses the needs of women from different ethnic backgrounds, income levels, and sexual preferences;
*reviews critical gender issues in many forms of qualitative and quantitative assessment;
*describes the use of a critical feminist approach to career counseling;
*discusses dual career and dual earners' career needs;
*focuses on the rapid growth in science/technology/engineering and mathematical (STEM) occupational fields; and
*examines the career counseling needs of women in management positions.

Handbook of Career Counseling for Women, Second Edition appeals to anyone interested in their own career development and those of clients, students, daughters, and other important girls and women in their life.

Table of Contents

1History of career counseling for women1
2Basic issues and concepts in the career development and counseling of women45
3Women and poverty : a holistic approach to vocational interventions75
4Career assessment and counseling for women103
5A critical feminist approach to career counseling with women167
6Sex, gender, and Dual-Earner families : implications and applications for career counseling for women193
7Career counseling with African American women219
8Career counseling for Asian women241
9Career counseling with Latinas271
10A culturally oriented approach for career counseling with native American women315
11Career counseling with lesbian clients351
12Career concerns of immigrant women : issues and implications for career counseling387
13Career counseling for women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields427
14Career counseling for women in management453

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