Career Guidance and Counseling Through the Lifespan by Edwin L. Herr, Spencer G. Niles, Stanley H. Cramer (2003, Hardcover, Subsequent Edition)

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.