International Handbook of Career Guidance (eBook)

This handbook offers a comprehensive review on career guidance, with an emphasis on the applied aspects of guidance together with research methods and perspectives. It features contributions from more than 30 leading authorities in the field from Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe and draws upon a wide range of career guidance paradigms and theoretical perspectives. 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.

James Athanasou is a psychologist and in private practice since the 1980s. He specialises only in medico-legal vocational assessment following personal injury and is cited in more than 14 reported judgements in the AustLii. He is also an Associate Professor (0.4) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, where he lectures in Applied Vocational Rehabilitation, Biopsychosocial Aspects of Disability and co-ordinates the Dissertation program. He is retiring in December 2018 but will continue in private practice and research on vocational interests and the return to work following accident or injury. He is an honorary professor in the Australian Collaboratory for Career Employability & Learning for Living at the University of Southern Queensland and a pro bono lecturer at the University of the Congo 'Agios Athanasios the Athonite'. He is the author of more than 10 books in education, rehabilitation and psychology and was previously editor of the Australian Journal of Career Development.

Dr. Harsha N. Perera, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he leads the Educational and Career Pathways Lab. His research centres on the social-cognitive-based motivational processes involved in educational choice and achievement. In addition, he has interests and expertise in advanced latent variable modelling methods, including latent variable approaches to validity assessment. Dr Perera serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, School Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Career Assessment, Frontiers in Psychology, Australian Journal of Career Development, and the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.