Highlights of the Sixth Edition:

• Provides a historical perspective on the evolution of career counseling and career guidance and identifies how definitions of these processes and the role of counselors change across time.
• Discusses the applications of systematic and planned approaches to career guidance and counseling for children, youth, and adults, in various settings: schools, colleges, and universities, business and industry, and community agencies.
• Offers superior emphasis on the applications of career counseling and guidance to different and special needs populations including African-Americans, Hispanics, other culturally diverse populations, males, females, children and adolescents, adults with mental health problems in the workplace, midcareer job changers, the unemployed, dual career families, persons with work/family conflicts, and burned out workers.
• Includes expanded treatment of international perspectives on changes in the occupational structure, work, and career interventions.
• Includes expanded treatment of the school-to-work transition and work-based learning as legislative initiatives and as important factors shaping career relevant schooling, transition services, and the transition and adjustment to work.

• The book provides an historical perspective on the evolution of career counseling and career guidance and identifies how definitions of these processes and the role of counselors change across time.

• Discusses the applications of systematic and planned approaches to career guidance and counseling for children, youth, and adults in various settings: schools, colleges and universities, business and industry, and community agencies.

• Offers superior emphasis on the applications of career counseling and guidance to different and special needs populations, including African-Americans, Hispanics, other culturally diverse populations, males, females, children and adolescents, adults with mental health problems in the workplace, mid-career job changers, the unemployed, dual-career families, persons with work/family conflicts, and burned out and plateaued workers.

• Places career counseling and guidance into an international context, identifying the importance of these processes in other nations, and gives examples of how they implement career services for different populations.

• Provides examples of actual career intervention programs with different populations and settings.

• The Instructor's Manual includes suggestions for use of the text, learning objectives for each chapter, a large array of learning activities that can be tailored to different student groups, examination items for each chapter, and sample course syllabi from across the country.