Career, Work, And Mental Health: Integrating Career And Personal Counseling

Individuals seeking career counseling often present with a complex array of issues, and thus it is often difficult for counselors to separate career satisfaction and development from other mental health issues. Career, Work, and Mental Health examines this tightly woven connection between mental health issues and career development and offers practical ways for counselors to blend career and personal counseling. Taking this integrative approach, author Vernon Zunker offers step-by-step procedures for delivering effective intervention strategies - tactics that are meaningful and relevant to career choice, career development, and the interconnectedness of personal problems. Features and Benefits Introduces readers to effective ways to address interrelationships by focusing on four domains: Career, Affective, Cognitive-Behavioral, and Culture Integrates career and personal counseling so readers can learn to diagnose and address both career and personal concerns in the career counseling process Illustrates the interplay of biological, psychological, and social/cultural dimensions and the spillover effect from one life role to another Provides an overview of career development theories to provide a solid understanding of the recommended practices Intended AudienceThis core text is an excellent resource for graduate-level courses in counseling, psychology, mental health counseling, clinical psychology, social work, vocational rehabilitation counseling, and school counseling.

This book is a T1 for graduate and advanced courses on career counseling/development. The approach is novel and has not been done to date. In this proposed text, Zunker integrates career counseling/development with mental health counseling. Thus the book builds on the framework that career counseling cannot be viewed in isolation of mental health issues; an individual needs to viewed as a whole person whose psyche and mental health are delicately intertwined. He provides a solid foundation on career theory and development but then goes into the second part of the book, which deals with how mental health and career issues are intertwined and how a career counselor or mental health counselor can intervene. This book is written by the author of the best-selling text in Career Counseling - Vernon Zunker. His book Career Counseling: A Holistic Approach is in its seventh edition and is the most widely adopted book in Career Counseling, selling on average 3,000 units in one calendar year. This book is written as a stand alone text (as we have incorporated basic theory) or could be used as a supplement to his best selling book. The book is practical in nature, offering specific interventions to deal with counseling individuals with career and personal concerns. The idea that mental health and career counseling should be more closely tied together is gaining prominence. Historically career guidance and counseling has been taught separately focusing on career development theories and application. It is now becoming more obvious that career issues are closely tied to mental health and visa versa and thus the timing is right for this book's release. The author believes that this book willeventually replace his other text. THis book's most prominent features and benefits include: aNew approach which interweaves career counseling and mental healthPractical, step-by-step guidanceAccessible writing styleTimely and cutting edgeBest-selling author