Career Counseling: A Holistic Approach | 
| Author: Vernon G. Zunker
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Category: Book
List Price: $134.95
Buy New: $71.63
You Save: $63.32 (47%)
New (36) Used (54) from $61.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 39827
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0534640176
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.425
EAN: 9780534640170
ASIN: 0534640176
Publication Date: 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New and Factory Sealed Item Fast Shipping
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This highly successful book has been called the most comprehensive text on the market, providing students with needed career theory as well as practical techniques and examples. Through the author's clear writing style, case examples, tables, and exercises, students develop a solid understanding of the theoretical models of career counseling and are thoroughly exposed to the practical information on how to effectively counsel clients about career issues. As demonstrated by the text's new subtitle, 'A Holistic Approach,' this substantially revised Seventh Edition reflects the growing emphasis on looking at the "whole person"--values, temperament, talents, and passions--to determine his or her best career fit.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 My least favorite textbook ever March 18, 2008
Sorry, but I found this textbook poorly and painfully written. My professor uses it because apparently it contains material that will be on the NCE. If it is such an important textbook, the material should be presented better and more clearly. It is just painful to read.
 Very good guide to career counseling. December 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is well written and has excellent coveraqe of all the essentials. It is very current and provides many practical ideas for counselors. The author is culturally sensitive and knowledgable about the most recent research. Highly recommended for graduate school courses in career counseling.
 Painful September 3, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is not useful. Many of the theories presented are outdated and the attempt at multiculturalism is offensive at best and only serves to present non-white cultures as "other". This book is poorly written, and in fact oddly written. If you don't have to buy this for class, don't buy it.
The best career counseling textbook April 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the most comprehensive and well-written of all the career counseling textbooks. It has excellent coverage of theories, counseling models, how to do an intake, standardized assessment, and technology. Five whole chapters are devoted to doing career counseling with special populations, including multicultural groups, women, people with disabilities, and GLB clients. There are also guides for developing career-related programs in elementary and secondary schools and colleges and universities. Ten very useful appendices address multicultural issues, professional associations, counseling web sites, etc. The book is easy to read,and each chapter includes supplementary learning exercises. The holistic approach and the multicultural sensitivity of the book are especially appreciated. My students have found the book to be very thorough and useful to help them prepare to do career counseling. No other career counseling book approaches the quality of this book.
I feel for those who are required to read this January 27, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is the WORST textbook ever. Im not kidding. It is poorly written and behind the times. Anyone who is not white is reffered to as 'ethnic' (now white people have no ethnicity? People of color cant be acculturated?) and many of the theories that are presented as being applicable view perfectly normal people as pathological. It barely has a grasp of the multicultural movement that many other fields in counseling have seemed to have jumped on. Its painful to read and even more painful to try and piece together the fragmented bits of information it gives.
|
|
|
