Career and College Readiness Counseling in P-12 Schools: Mar 13 2017

by Jennifer R. Curry, Amy Milsom

Praise for the First "Serves as an excellent foundational text…I am very thankful that the authors wrote this text. [It] is written for school counselors by school counselor educators!" - Gene Eakin, PhD , School Counseling Program Lead, Oregon State University Fully updated to serve the needs of school counselors in training, this remains the only text to present a comprehensive, developmental, and practical approach to preparing school counselors to conceptualize the career development and college-readiness needs of P-12 students. The second edition reflects the ASCA’s new Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success, which focuses on college and career-readiness standards for all students, 2016 CACREP Standards, and the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act. The text is uniquely grounded in developmental, ecosystemic, and career theories as a basis for career interventions. Considering the range of psychosocial, cognitive, and academic development spanning P-12 students, the authors review relevant developmental and career theories as a foundation for the design of sequential and developmentally appropriate career and college-readiness curricula and interventions. The text provides school counselors and educators concrete examples of how to select, implement, and evaluate the outcomes of interventions grounded in various career counseling theories and addresses career development and college readiness needs by grade level. Also included is expanded information on diversity; reflections and advice from actual school counselors; updated statistics, references, and appendices; and an updated Instructor’s Manual, test bank, and PowerPoint slides. New to the Second Key

Genres: Counselling

410 pages, Paperback

Published March 13, 2017

Reviews

[Carly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ugh. This was a tough book to get through for me based on the repetitive nature of it. This 15 chapter book devotes 9 of its chapters to specific grade levels. This sounds like a great idea of organization (or maybe a great idea if I weren't reading for a class but just for ideas for my counseling program). In PRACTICE however, this makes each of those chapters INSANELY repetitive.

"As mentioned in chapter ___, Super's/Erikson's/Piaget's/Gottfredson's Theory..."

It seems they needed a certain number of chapters more than a functional use. A better organizational method (which would have drastically cut down on the pages) would have been to group students by age or developmental phase perhaps?

Great review of early childhood development however.

There were good things in this book. I just got too resentful of the repetitiveness to be as receptive to them.

[Georgia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good information.

[Madeline Singleton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creative ideas for college and career counseling