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Career Development and Systems Theory: Connecting Theory and Practice offers practitioners, researchers and students a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, career theory; introduces the Systems Theory Framework of career development; and demonstrates its considerable contemporary and innovative application to practice. A number of authors have identified the framework as one of a small number of significant innovations in the career development literature. The Systems Theory Framework of career development was developed to provide coherence to the career development field by providi.

Table of Contents:

• PREFACE; OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; WENDY PATTON; MARY MCMAHON; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; PART 1: REVIEW OF EXISTING THEORIES; CHAPTER 1: RATIONALE FOR A SYSTEMS THEORY PERSPECTIVE; DEFINITIONS; The Meaning of 'Career'; Career Development; BRIEF HISTORY OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY; THE STRUCTURE OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY; Theories of Content; Theories of Process; Theories of Content and Process; Wider Explanations; Constructivist/Social Constructionist Approaches; Issues Related to Categorisation.
• Philosophical Underpinnings of Our Understandings of CareerApplying Systems Theory to Career Development; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 2: THEORIES FOCUSING ON CONTENT; THE WORK OF FRANK PARSONS; DIFFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY; Trait and Factor Theory; Limitations and Criticisms of Trait and Factor Theory; Five Factor Model of Personality; Person-Environment Fit; Holland's Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments; Theory of Work Adjustment; BORDIN'S PSYCHODYNAMIC MODEL OF CAREER CHOICE; BROWN'S VALUES-BASED THEORY; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEORIES OF CONTENT; Self-knowledge.
• Work EnvironmentPerson-environment Fit; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3: THEORIES FOCUSING ON PROCESS; THE WORK OF GINZBERG AND COLLEAGUES; SUPER'S LIFE-SPAN, LIFE-SPACE APPROACH; Propositions; Self; Life-span and Life-space; CAREER CONSTRUCTION: A DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOUR; INDIVIDUALISTIC APPROACH; GOTTFREDSON'S CIRCUMSCRIPTION AND COMPROMISE THEORY; Cognitive Growth; Self-creation; Circumscription; Compromise; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEORIES; CHAPTER 4: THEORIES FOCUSING ON CONTENT AND PROCESS; KRUMBOLTZ'S SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY OF CAREER DECISION-MAKING (SLTCDM).
• SOCIAL COGNITIVE CAREER THEORYInterests; Career Choice; Career-related Performance; COGNITIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL-CONTEXTUAL APPROACH; ROE'S THEORY OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER CHOICE; A CONTEXTUALIST ACTION THEORY EXPLANATION OF CAREER; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEORIES; Individual Content Influences; Context Influences; Process Influences; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 5: COMPARISON OF THE CURRENT THEORIES; THE INDIVIDUAL; THE CONTEXT OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT; PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIABLES; DECISION-MAKING; CHANCE.
• INTERACTION PROCESSCONCLUSION; CHAPTER 6: THEORIES OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT: WIDER EXPLANATIONS; WOMEN'S CAREER DEVELOPMENT; Understandings and Definitions of Career for Women; Issues in Women's Careers; THEORIES RELATED TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN; Specific Theories for Women; Adaptation of Traditional Theories; Comprehensive Theories Applicable to Women and Men; Specific Models Focusing on Individual Differences; Sociocognitive Models; Ecological or Systems Approaches; Women's Career Development
• Relational and Cultural Theories; Summary; THEORIES RELATED TO RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS.

Author/Creator:

Patton, Wendy, 1957- , author

Contributors:

McMahon, Mary, 1955- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Career development and systems theory: connecting theory and practice [by Patton, W.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Career development and systems theory : connecting theory and practice [by Patton, W.] (Third edition; Rotterdam, Netherlands : Sense Publishers, ©2014; xxii, 476 pages; Career development series (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; Volume 6 — ISBN 9789462096332)

Related Series:

Career development series (Rotterdam, Netherlands); v. 6

Subjects:

Career development

Vocational guidance

Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Netherlands — Rotterdam

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 22, 2014).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 476 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HF5381 .P388 2014eb

ISBNs:

9789462096356 (electronic bk.)
946209635X (electronic bk.)
9462096333
9789462096332
9462096341
9789462096349
9789462096332 [Invalid]
9789462096349 [Invalid]

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-94-6209-635-6

OCLC Numbers:

880372474