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Career Counseling : A Holistic Approach Hardcover – Illustrated, 17 October 2014

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Providing the most current, comprehensive coverage available, CAREER COUNSELING: A HOLISTIC APPROACH, 9th Edition equips readers with a solid understanding of the theoretical models of career counseling as well as practical techniques on how to effectively counsel clients. The text's innovative holistic or 'whole person' approach demonstrates how to consider a client's values, temperament, talents, and passions when trying to determine his or her best career fit. Thoroughly revised and updated, the ninth edition includes chapters on integrating career and personal counseling, job loss and transitions, adult career development, and career-related programs in middle schools. In addition, diversity issues are integrated throughout, while relevant case studies bring chapter concepts to life.

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ASIN : 1305087283
Publisher : Brooks/Cole ISE; 9th edition (17 October 2014)
Language : English
Hardcover : 512 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781305087286
ISBN-13 : 978-1305087286
Dimensions : 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm

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�I find this product is one of the strongest on the market that is more inclusive of the whole lifespan and includes the holistic considerations. The traditional separation of career counseling and personal counseling is bridged in this text. This is an excellent move to unite the counseling profession, and to demonstrate that the two cannot be separated.�

�This is a very comprehensive, thorough, and inclusive reference text within the field of career development and career counseling. The author provides in-depth, contextual information related to serving special populations, including female and male clients, clients with disabilities, racial/ethnic minority clients, and clients within a variety of age groups.�

About the Author

Vernon Zunker is a retired professor from Southwest Texas State University. He earned his Ed.D. with an emphasis on counseling from the University of Houston and completed a residency in clinical psychology at the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston. Although retired from teaching, Dr. Zunker continues to push the discipline forward by keeping career counseling relevant to all counseling students.

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The text reflects the developments, research and techniques, and includes research results from positive psychology and an increased focus on resiliency.
The text's offers career guidance over the life span, including career guidance for school age children, college students, and adults in career transition.
To make your study and preparation for the licensing examination easier, the text includes tables that summarize theories of career development and counseling models.

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Student4Life

Soul-crushing.

Reviewed in the United States on 20 June 2016

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I wish I could give this book less than one star. It is terrible. Truly awful. After four years for an undergraduate degree and two-and-a-half more for a masters, I can say this is the most soul-crushing, deadly-boring, poorly written text I've come across. It seems as if the author is playing a game with himself: "If it takes ten words to make my point, how many more words can I add to stretch it to a paragraph?" You'd think the publisher is paying by the word. If there is literally ANY other book you can buy, please: Buy something else. This book is so bad my classmates have actually wondered out loud if Mr. Zunker secretly hates the person to whom the book is dedicated. Yes. That bad.

I get it: career counseling is a less-than-scintillating topic under any circumstances. And I appreciate the time and effort Mr. Zunker clearly put in to writing it. This book desperately needs an editor to help the author say what he needs to say, because he could say it with a lot fewer words and in a way that doesn't make me absolutely dread cracking the book open.

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Joel Hacker

This is literally one of the worst textbooks I have ever read (in the course of ...

Reviewed in the United States on 11 March 2018

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Among the worst textbooks I have read for any undergraduate or graduate course (and I am working on a second master’s degree). The writing is clunky, clumsy, unengaging, and quite ultimately not very informative as it very frequently (much too frequently) refers the reader to outside sources (primarily websites) for more complete information. This also makes it feel as if the writer only had a passing familiarity with the subject matter, or perhaps was even working directly from freshly sourced material that they had only skimmed. The book, on the whole, reads as if it was written either by an undergrad or perhaps a technical writer from another field entirely who was being payed by the word, as there is a great deal of repitition of information (sometimes almost verbatim) both within and between sections.
My understanding is that it is widely used in graduate school counseling departments for courses dealing with school counseling, I would assume because Pearson makes a wide range of premade quizzes and other materials available. However, I would discourage prospective professors from adopting or continuing to use this text. It can hardly be said to be definitive in its coverage of the subject matter, can barely said to be readable, is quite expensive, and can most certainly not said to be useful (only a small fraction of the book is even devoted to issues of school counseling, most is geared toward adult career counseling). As an interesting data point, almost everyone who rated this above 3 stars is outside the US, has an average rating for everything they’ve read of 4 stars and up, and/or is a duplicate profile rating it more than once to drive up the average.

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Arielle Wellons

Poorly written and unreliable

Reviewed in the United States on 15 June 2017

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I appreciated some of the content about cultural factors and developmental concerns. However, the book is poorly-written, and, as others have said, very difficult to follow at times. The writing quality is definitely below that of most of my other textbooks. It seems as if the book were never truly proof-read. I kept encountering sentence fragments that didn't make sense, and I had to infer what the author was trying to say.

Even worse, I came across this statement on page 372: "Interestingly, parenting style that is less authoritative, strongly influences teenagers to be less susceptible to peer pressure (Mounts & Steinberg, 1995)." This struck me as unlikely, since authoritative parenting is known to be beneficial in helping kids develop a strong identity and sense of values. I found the source article, and it said that kids with authoritative parents are more likely to be influenced by peers who value high school achievement (beneficial peer influence), but less likely to be influenced by peers who are using drugs. Hence, the textbook is extremely misleading in its use of this source (possibly due to poor writing/proof-reading, rather than genuine misuse). But if I (as a graduate student, not a professor) can find informational errors in this text, then it makes me wonder what else is misconstrued. I'm not impressed. For $150, you'd expect to get a better product!

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Fatty no more.

boring beyond belief

Reviewed in the United States on 2 March 2018

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way too technical. no enough case histories that ilustrate the theories. boring beyond belief. plus once you read through all the theories it is obvious that they all originate from Parsons with just each new researcher tossing in their own little twists all to essentially come back to the premise : know thy self, know the occupations/work careers out there in the world and then figure out how to put the first two together to find a fit. as usual with career counseling books the occupations are typical:: lawyer, doctor, electrician, pipe fitter, IT, cafeteria worker, post office etc.

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andrea latvis

If I could give this zero stars, I would.

Reviewed in the United States on 3 December 2018

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This books is absolutely awful. It's the (only) required text for my graduate school Career Counseling class. It's extremely wordy, pages and pages filled with words and no graphics. The material feels like it has no life or passion. As a visual person, I find it extremely hard to. understand the theories. They all meld together in a pile of words that run in circles. Other whole chapters seem to cover common sense concepts in uninspired ways. I agree with other commenters that it feels like the author has a word count goal, and that all the filler words totally pollute the vital material. Since the professor uses the slideshow that comes with the book, our entire class is mind-numbingly bored and confused by the material.

I am at the end of the semester now and feel like there's very little I've been able to take away from this very dense book. I am writing my term paper now and have resorted to looking online for diagrams and other explanations that clarify the career theories I'm exploring.

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