International Handbook of Career Guidance (2008)

This handbook offers a comprehensive review on career guidance, covering not only the background of vocational guidance but also the key issues across career guidance policy, processes, practices and procedures. It places emphasis on the applied aspects of guidance together with research methods and perspectives.

The handbook features contributions from more than 30 leading authorities in the field from Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe who also offer valuable directions for future research. This handbook covers such subjects as educational and vocational guidance in a social context, theoretical foundations, educational and vocational guidance in practice, specific target groups, testing and assessment, and evaluation. It draws upon a wide range of career guidance paradigms and theoretical perspectives from person-environment fit, through developmental, to narrative and constructivist as well as critical theory approaches.