Handbook of career counseling for women /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 553 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary topics in vocational psychology Contemporary topics in vocational psychology. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11299868 |
| 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:<br> <br> *focuses on the history of the field and provides the social-historical context for its development;<br> *discusses basic issues and concepts in the career development and counseling of women;<br> *discusses the needs of women from different ethnic backgrounds, income levels, and sexual preferences;<br> *reviews critical gender issues in many forms of qualitative and quantitative assessment;<br> *describes the use of a critical feminist approach to career counseling;<br> *discusses dual career and dual earners' career needs;<br> *focuses on the rapid growth in science/technology/engineering and mathematical (STEM) occupational fields; and<br> *examines the career counseling needs of women in management positions.<br> <br> 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. |
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| Item Description: | Revised edition of: Career counseling for women / edited by W. Bruce Walsh & Samuel H. Osipow. 1994. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 553 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1410617033 9781410617033 9781135614836 1135614830 0805848886 0805848894 1299693482 9781299693487 9786612375583 6612375582 |