Handbook of Career Counseling for Women

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-12-07
Publisher(s): Lawrence Erlbau
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Summary

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

Preface vii
1 History of Career Counseling for Women
1(44)
Helen S. Farmer
2 Basic Issues and Concepts in the Career Development and Counseling of Women
45(30)
Nancy Betz
3 Women and Poverty: A Holistic Approach to Vocational Interventions
75(28)
Mary J. Heppner and Karen M. O'Brien
4 Career Assessment and Counseling for Women
103(64)
Susan D. Lonhorg and Gail Hackett
5 A Critical Feminist Approach to Career Counseling With Women
167(26)
Krista M. Chronister, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, and Linda Forrest
6 Sex, Gender, and Dual-Earner Families: Implications and Applications for Career Counseling for Women
193(26)
Lucia Albino Gilbert and Lisa K. Kearney
7 Career Counseling With African American Women
219(22)
Rosie Phillips Bingham, Connie M. Ward, and Melissa McGhee Butler
8 Career Counseling for Asian Women
241(30)
Saba Rasheed Ali, Samuel Z. Lewis, and Riddhi Sandil
9 Career Counseling With Latinas
271(44)
Lisa Y. Flores, Rachel L. Navarro, and Lizette Ojeda
10 A Culturally Oriented Approach for Career Counseling With Native American Women 315(36)
Charlotte McCloskey and Laurie Mintz
11 Career Counseling With Lesbian Clients 351(36)
Kathleen J. Bieschke and Elizabeth Toepfer-Hiendey
12 Career Concerns of Immigrant Women: Issues and Implications for Career Counseling 387(40)
Oksana Yakushko
13 Career Counseling for Women in Science, Technology. Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields 427(26)
Ruth E. Fassinger and Penelope A. Asay
14 Career Counseling for Women in Management 453(60)
Joyce E.A. Russell
Author Index 513(22)
Subject Index 535

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