Career Counselling (Therapy in Practice) - Hardcover

`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

`insightful in its explanation of exactly what career counselling is, the problems and issues brought to counsellors and what career counsellors can do to help their clients... The outstanding features are the practical and clear approach given to each issue and the wide range of easy-to-relate-to examples and scenarios used as illustrations. The volume covers from school leavers to the 45 plus age bracket and is of use to career counsellors, students of counselling and anyone interested in the field of career counselling' - The International Journal of Career Management

`a highly practical guide for those working as career counsellors, with an emphasis on clients and counsellors who are operating independently of the large organization... The book is extremely well-structured and thus, despite being packed with information, makes for easy reading. Throughout, the points are illustrated with mini case studies... the book gives a strong sense of the personal experience of the authors, with the recommendations based not on some unrealistic ideal, but on what they seek to do in their career counselling practice... the authors cite theories which support the processes that they recommend and give consideration to those people who might find it extremely difficult to find a job or change career. I felt that Career Counselling could quite well be read by individuals thinking about their own career changes, using the homework exercises to facilitate the process... the book achieves its aims in a clearly written and well-organized manner' - The Occupational Psychologist

`Career guidance practitioners reading this book will not be disappointed. Robert Nathan and his co-author have provided a valuable addition to the series... chapters give a clear exposition of the issues and procedures involved. It is difficult to find fault with this book... Although it is likely to be most relevant to those who work with adults in a more extended manner, even those who practise brief advice-giving with young people will find many points to stimulate their thinking and to inform their practice. Accordingly, it gives me pleasure to be able to recommend this book with no reservations' - Newscheck with Careers Service Bulletin

`Both practical and accessible in setting out many of the issues of career counselling... its clear style, presentation and systematic approach to career counselling work lends itself to assimilation chapter by chapter... This is a valuable publication for students as well as more experienced practitioners in its sensitivity to the counselling relationship in this specific area of work' - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

`The succinct and practical nature of the information presented make the book very easy reading... The nature of the information presented is unique and can make a counseling practice more successful. Therefore, it is recommended reading for rehabilitation professionals' - NARPPS Journal