International Handbook Of Career Guidance

863 Pages·2019·11.783 MB·English

by  James Athanasou, Harsha N. Perera

James A. Athanasou
Harsha N. Perera Editors
International
Handbook of
Career Guidance
Second Edition
International Handbook of Career Guidance
James A. Athanasou • Harsha N. Perera
Editors
International Handbook
of Career Guidance
Second Edition
Editors
James A. Athanasou Harsha N. Perera
Sydney, NSW, Australia College of Education
University of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-25152-9 ISBN 978-3-030-25153-6 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25153-6
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To Raoul and Josee van Esbroeck –
international colleagues
Preface to the First Edition
The International Handbook of Career Guidance represents a project of interna-
tional professional cooperation. It is intended as a catalyst for reform and was
designed to support the development of career guidance in the years to come.
Working for over 4 years from Belgium and Australia we had the privilege to col-
laborate with over 50 colleagues throughout the world to produce this Handbook. In
every instance we selected key researchers who have an established reputation in
the field of career development. They agreed to be involved and we are grateful for
their support in this major effort.
In this handbook we have tried to bring together a collection that summarises the
diverse aspects of career guidance. It is a synthesis of the domain of career and
vocational guidance firstly for an international readership and secondly it is designed
to act as a reference for academics, researchers and professionals in the expanding
field of career development. For this reason the Handbook includes coverage of the
background and history of guidance right through to poignant issues relating to
careers in the modern world of work. Policy issues relating to the provision of
careers services as well as professional issues relating to career education, career
counselling, career assessment, program evaluation and research methodologies are
covered.
The reader will find that many different viewpoints are represented. This is delib-
erate.. The Handbook intends to present to readers some of the career guidance
“homes”, as it was called by Savickas and Baker in their chapter on “The history of
vocational psychology” in the 2005 third edition of the Walsh and Savickas
Handbook of Vocational Psychology. No attempt has been made to impose a uni-
form viewpoint, or a particular ideology or theoretical perspective on the reader.
Rather, we have preferred the option of allowing each author to speak with their
own voice and from their own experience. Accordingly the various chapters com-
plement each other. They provide a holistic view of career guidance as a discipline
that is worthy of research and as a field that has both practical and theoretical appli-
cations. It is up to the reader to critique and evaluate each contribution on its own
merits and then to consider its relevance for their particular situation or context.
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The original idea to create an International Handbook originated at the 2001
IAEVG in Vancouver, Canada, at the moment of the presentation of the first issue of
the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. Several inter-
national colleagues agreed on the need at that moment, but no action was taken.
Unfortunately it took several years before the real work began. Concrete action to
realise this handbook started in mid-2003 and progressed still further following a
meeting of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance
in New Zealand. Agreement was reached in 2004 and the first contributors were
contacted in the second half of the year. Three years, some 1000 pages and 1300
e-mails later, the Handbook has emerged.
Our underlying aim was to provide a reference that reflected international work
in guidance. This edition represents a small step and from the outset it was our
stated hope that it would be updated at regular intervals. We are conscious that edu-
cational and vocational guidance in all the continents has not been adequately rep-
resented and we look forward to the day when there will be a wider international
representation of cultural views, so that career guidance is not seen as a purely
Western phenomenon.
One by-product of the Handbook has been to reinforce the view that career guid-
ance is certainly a coherent and structured professional field. There is a body of
knowledge and expertise that pertains to educational and vocational guidance. It is
vast and wide-ranging.
Another by-product for the editors has been an acquaintance with some fine col-
leagues. Whatever may be said about this field, one thing is true; and that is the fact
that people who work and research in this field are by-and-large exceptional indi-
viduals. They sacrifice their time and effort to advance knowledge for the benefit of
society (and of course their own careers). They blend intellectual curiosity with
some altruistic quality. We may not agree on theoretical issues but we certainly
agree that we like each other as individuals. This is not a bad starting point for a
world that is riddled with wars, oppression and tensions. The field of guidance is
international and we thought it deserved an international handbook.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel Raoul Van Esbroeck
Brussel, Belgium
University of Technology James Athanasou
Sydney, Australia
Preface to the Second Edition
In the second edition of this International Handbook of Career Guidance, we have
attempted to continue a tradition of international collaboration. Naturally, we are
grateful to Springer for their faith in continuing this series. To a large part, this
reflects the success of the first edition, which had some 116,726 chapter downloads
for the e-book and was in the top 25% most downloaded e-books for the publisher
in 2017. This achievement is a tribute to the many contributors and their reputation
in the field.
Regrettably, Raoul van Esbroeck was not able to continue as a coeditor of the
second edition. His experience is sorely missed, and I have taken the liberty of dedi-
cating this volume to him. My colleague Prof. Harsha Perera from the University of
Nevada has agreed kindly to take his place, with a view to becoming a successor in
the editorship of future editions of this handbook.
The emphasis again is on the diverse aspects of career guidance, and for those
who may recall a section in the former Vocational Guidance Quarterly, it is a sal-
magundi of career and vocational guidance topics. Much has changed since those
early days when the sole task was the appraising of vocational fitness. The field then
broadened to concepts of career incorporating a greater emphasis on counseling.
Career guidance has now encompassed specialized topics, such as unemployment,
decent work, refugees, children, O∗NET, or retirement, to name but a few areas. A
researcher from the 1970s or even later would barely recognize today’s field, let
alone feel comfortable in any discussions. Moreover, the pace of change has quick-
ened even within the short time span of some 10 years since the first edition. New
theories have come on stage and other ideas exited – some more gracefully than
others.
Once more, it has been important that many different viewpoints are represented.
This is deliberate. Again, no attempt has been made to impose a uniform viewpoint
or a particular ideology or theoretical perspective on the reader.
It would be remiss of me as a departing editor, however, not to comment that
although the study of career guidance has progressed in leaps and bounds, the theo-
retical foundation needs to be coherent and structured. As a discipline, career
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guidance poses considerable challenges, and this handbook is but a small contribu-
tion to its theory and practice.
The task of this handbook is to serve as a guide and introduction. I am conscious
that there are still limitations in international coverage as well as intellectual breadth.
Nevertheless, it has been a great privilege to act as a coeditor for these 38 contribu-
tions. The content actually complements that of the first edition, and both should be
read in conjunction.
I am now looking forward to my second academic retirement, and it is with great
pleasure that I hand over the reins to a younger and far more competent researcher,
Harsha Perera. Few would be more qualified to carry on this task. I wish him every
academic success and look forward to future editions under his leadership. To the
many contributors and international colleagues, one extends heartfelt thanks and
appreciation for all their efforts – it has been a considerable privilege and honor to
work with such fine scholars.
Sydney, Australia James Athanasou
October 2018
Contents
1 Introduction: An International Handbook of Career Guidance . . . . . . 1
Harsha N. Perera and James A. Athanasou
Part I Theoretical Foundations
2 A History of Career Counselling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Mark L. Savickas and Suzanne Savickas
3 Major Career Theories: International and Developmental
Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Cindy L. Juntunen, Thomas C. Motl, and Matthew Rozzi
4 Career Theory for Change: The Influences of Social
Constructionism and Constructivism, and Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Wendy Patton
5 The Systems Theory Framework: A Systems Map
for Career Theory, Research and Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Mary McMahon and Wendy Patton
6 Decision-Making Models and Career Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Itamar Gati, Nimrod Levin, and Shiri Landman-Tal
7 A Social Cognitive View of Career Development
and Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Steven D. Brown and Robert W. Lent
8 The Psychology of Working: Framework and Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Kelsey L. Autin and Ryan D. Duffy
9 Career Callings and Career Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Bryan J. Dik, Kaitlyn Reed, Adelyn B. Shimizu, Dylan R. Marsh,
and Jessica L. Morse
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