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The 4th edition of Career Counseling is a comprehensive resource that equips counselors with practical skills and updated knowledge to support diverse clients in navigating career challenges, featuring new insights on traditional and postmodern theories, client empowerment, and the use of social media in counseling.
The Coaches Handbook, edited by Jonathan Passmore, offers a comprehensive, evidence-based guide for new and experienced coaches, covering coaching fundamentals, skills, approaches, ethics, and professional development, with practical tools and insights from global experts.
Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling provides counsellors with training, offering clear, practical guidance on applying career development principles with useful case examples, integrated diversity coverage, and resources such as websites and the Companion Website for case studies and quizzes.
This updated core text by Neil Thompson on anti-discriminatory practice is essential for social work students and practitioners, offering insights into combating discrimination and promoting equality with practical examples, theoretical foundations, and reflective questions.
A practical introduction for those training in the field of career development, career counselling and career coaching, this book will take you through established and emerging theory and the different contexts in which career work takes place introducing the key skills, techniques and models they’ll need. Professional issues such as the use of digital technologies highlight the contemporary context of careers work and all of this is brought to life through engaging case studies and reflective questions, highlighting the practical applications of what is being learnt.
This book offers a thorough, research-based overview of counselling and psychotherapy, updated in its sixth edition to include contemporary practices, and features case studies, research, reflection topics, and further reading for students and educators.
David Peck's The History of Careers Guidance in the UK traces the evolution of careers services from the pre-war Juvenile Employment Service to contemporary programs like Careers Scotland and Connexions, linking these developments to broader social, educational, and economic changes. The book provides a detailed account of the professionalization of careers advising, including training and qualifications, and offers valuable insights for practitioners, educators, and policymakers involved in career guidance.
The SAGE Handbook of Coaching offers a global and comprehensive overview of coaching, covering its discipline, processes, common issues, contextual applications, research, and coach development, making it an essential reference for graduate students, scholars, educators, and practitioners.
This book explores work, occupation, and career development across cultures, advocating for the integration of non-Western perspectives into career guidance models to create more relevant and universally applicable frameworks that address both global and local challenges in career development.
The handbook provides a comprehensive guide to career development, examining its theory, context, and support practices from diverse perspectives including socio-economic, political, and educational viewpoints.
The Career Coaching Handbook is an essential guide that combines the latest research and coaching techniques to help students and practitioners apply evidence-based strategies to real-world career support.
The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the UbD "backward design" approach, featuring explanations, exercises, examples, review criteria, and resources for K-16 educators, students, and administrators to independently design and assess curriculum units.
E-tivities, 2nd Edition by Gilly Salmon provides a practical guide to designing and implementing impactful online learning activities, incorporating updates on technological advancements, new case studies, and the "Carpe Diem" approach to learning design, making it a valuable resource for educators, trainers, and developers.
Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice offers a concise, research-based overview of adult learning theories and their practical applications, covering topics such as globalization, technology, learning contexts, various learning theories, and critical thinking, making it suitable for both graduate students and practitioners.
Ann Gravells's guide provides comprehensive information for current and aspiring teachers and trainers in the further education and skills sector, covering roles, planning, technology use, assessment, quality assurance, and professional development, with interactive activities and real examples included throughout.
Laurie Mullins's Management & Organisational Behaviour (11th edition) provides an in-depth exploration of how management and organisational behaviour theories apply to real-world practices, focusing on improving organisational performance through effective people management and including updated case studies, exercises, and academic viewpoints.
Teaching for Quality Learning at University by Biggs and Tang introduces the concept of constructive alignment for outcomes-based education, providing guidance on designing teaching and learning activities to meet desired outcomes and assess their achievement.
This book explores how career guidance intersects with social justice and neoliberalism, offering global perspectives and theoretical insights to suggest alternative futures for the field.
David A. Kolb's Experiential Learning, Second Edition presents an updated and comprehensive overview of experiential learning theory, incorporating recent research and applications to education and adult development, and offering insights into learning styles and their relevance across various disciplines and settings.
Based on the author's research and consultancy practice, this book builds on the GROW coaching model and introduces a model which involves 5 core capabilities and a 7-step process - The Achieve Coaching model.
The sixth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner by Christopher Johns offers a comprehensive guide to using reflective practice in nursing, featuring John's structured reflection model, practical insights for clinical practice, and discussions on reflective writing, narrative weaving, and ethical practice, making it essential for students, practitioners, and mentors in healthcare. E-book of 5th edition (2017) available.
Understanding Career Counselling by Jennifer Kidd offers a comprehensive exploration of career counselling theory, research, and practice from a British perspective. The book is divided into two sections: the first covers career development theories and their practical implications, while the second focuses on counselling skills, tools, techniques, and ethical issues. It serves as a valuable resource for students and practitioners in career guidance, counselling, and related fields, providing insights into recent developments and practical applications in the profession.
This comprehensive guide on values and ethics in coaching provides an in-depth exploration of ethical theory, practical considerations, and real-life examples across various professional contexts, essential for both trainee and experienced coaches.
What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini argues for rethinking the role of universities beyond their economic value, emphasizing the importance of intellectual inquiry and the humanities in understanding their true significance.
Coaching is being proposed as the best method to encourage a change in the ideologies that have brought about the credit crunch. The authors' concern is to show how coaching can widen its intellectual range to become a progressively more effective technique within organizational life.
The updated second edition of 'Co-Active Coaching' builds on its pioneering model with over 35 new tools, checklists, and examples, reflecting the growth of coaching as a global profession, and includes a CD with real-life dialogues and forms for practical use.
The Future of Coaching by Hetty Einzig explores how coaching must evolve to address the complexities of the modern world, challenging traditional performance models and advocating for a more ethical, holistic approach to leadership and coaching in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.
Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions explores the processes of ethical decision-making and presents a new model for achieving ethical maturity, offering a historical, philosophical, and interdisciplinary overview of ethics relevant to various professional fields.
This book provides detailed case studies and tasks for using counseling strategies in career guidance, helping clients overcome unhelpful thought patterns and achieve their goals, while also addressing training and development issues for career advisers.
The second edition of the Handbook offers an interdisciplinary exploration of lifelong learning, covering trends, psychological factors, and the value of continuous learning, with 38 chapters on adult learning theory, training methods, learning technologies, and challenges, while addressing individual differences and situational factors that impact learning across the lifespan.
Bolman and Deal's four-frame model, offers a multidisciplinary approach to leadership by exploring organizational structure, human resources, politics, and culture to effectively navigate complexity and enhance performance.
The Coaching Manual is a globally trusted guide that offers practical methods and techniques for coaching, from initial meetings to conclusion, providing valuable tools and insights for both new and experienced coaches.
The Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners offers an extensive overview of coaching psychology theory, research, and practice, with contributions from international experts covering various approaches, applications, and ethical considerations, making it invaluable for coaching psychologists, coaches, academics, students, and professionals in related fields.
This book explores the essential components of effective listening in coaching and mentoring, offering a framework to improve listening skills through attention, inquiry, observation, and self-use, and providing practical exercises and reflections to enhance your listening practice.
The newly updated third edition of Career Development and Counseling offers graduate students in counseling and psychology comprehensive coverage of career theories, interventions, and assessments, with new insights on the future of work, career adaptability, and working with diverse populations.
This edited collection examines how social justice can be integrated into career guidance, proposing new models and practices informed by critical social theory to expand the discipline beyond its traditional psychological focus, aiming to support human flourishing and solidarity in career guidance practice and research.
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