This book should be of interest to senior undergraduates and graduates, taking courses in career counselling.

Career Development and Services: A Cognitive Approach

Peterson, Gary W.

Reardon, Robert

Sampson, James

Business & Money

Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.

This text integrates theoretical material and provides a practical slant. The many discussions and exercises enable readers to explore their own career issues in order to learn practical approaches to career planning. The authors cover basic career concepts and decision making; social conditions affecting career development such as the global economy and organizational culture; and practical information on implementing a strategic career plan. Many books in this area provide an extensive survey of various theoretical approaches to career planning/development. However, this text constitutes a systematically designed course based on the cognitive information processing model of career problem solving and decision making. This model provides a practical and realistic vehicle to inform students about career planning and management interventions and to accommodate students at different levels of decidedness about their career aspirations.

Career Development and Planning: A Comprehensive Approach

Reardon, Robert C.

Lenz, Janet G.

Sampson, James P.

Job Hunting & Careers

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

This book is designed to help practitioners in translating theory to practice in the delivery of career counseling and services. The theoretical focus of the book is the cognitive information processing (CIP) approach to career problem solving and decision-making developed and applied at Florida State University since 1971. The CIP approach is currently being used in numerous educational and employment settings in North America and Europe. This book is the culmination of 29 years of experience in delivering career resources and services and in training practitioners in various settings. It provides a framework for integrating a variety of other career theories, thus increasing the likelihood that practitioners can use the CIP approach in practice.

Career Counseling and Services: A Cognitive Information Processing Approach (Graduate Career Counseling)

Sampson, Jr. James P.

Economics

Brooks/Cole

This book should be of interest to undergraduate courses of sociology and psychology.

Adolescents in Families

Politics & Social Sciences

Leigh, Geoffrey K

Social Sciences

South-Western Pub.

The text includes theoretical work in cognitive psychology and relevant knowledge from the applied behavioral sciences. Â• Part I (chapters 1-5) focuses on the theory base in cognitive information processing, with detailed, practical examples of the application of the theory in typical career situations, including self-knowledge, occupational knowledge, and decision making. Â• Part II (chapters 6-10) provides a multidisciplinary overlay of issues that affect career decisions, such as economic trends, organizational culture, and family-career conflict. Â• Part III (chapters 11-15) focuses on concrete steps for executing a strategic career plan and seeking employment, including an examination of familiar topics such as interviewing, resume writing, negotiating, and work adjustment, from a cognitive and multidisciplinary perspective.

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Fatherhood

How much power does a father have to influence his children's development? A lively and often heated public debate on the role and value of the father in a family has been underway in the United States for the past decade. Nevertheless, we are far from understanding the complex ways in which fathers make contributions to their families and children. Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies addresses the central questions of the role of fathers:  What is the impact of father involvement on child outcomes?  What factors predict increased involvement of fathers?Bringing together papers presented at the Conference on Father Involvement, this volume includes contributions by leading scholars in anthropology, demography, economics, family science, psychology, and sociology. Many of the contributors also address the implications of father involvement for family policy issues, including family leave, child care, and child support. Furthermore, the discussion of fatherhood ranges well beyond the case of intact, middle-class, white families to include fathers from various ethnic groups and socioeconomic classes and of varied marital status, including fathers of nonmarital children, single-father families, and nonresident fathers. Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies addresses both practical and theoretical concerns, including:the redefinition of fatherhood changes over time in research on fatherhood the predictive power of fathers’activities on their children's adult outcomes the correlation between fathers’income and their involvement with their nonmarital children the influence of fathers on their sons’probability of growing up to become responsible fathers the effects of divorce on father-son and father-daughter relationships interventions that help to keep divorced fathers in touch with their childrenThis comprehensive, powerful book combines pioneering empirical research with thoughtful consideration of the social and psychological implications of fatherhood. It is essential reading for researchers, policymakers, psychologists, and students of family studies, human development, gender studies, social policy, sociology, and human ecology.

Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies

Day, Randal D.

Steinmetz, Suzanne

Peters, H. Elizabeth

Reference

Routledge

Health, Fitness & Dieting

“The family is the place where minds come in contact with one another”—Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how professionals and practitioners working with today's families view the role of emotions in general family and marital processes. Professionals, researchers, and academics present a wide variety of approaches to the study of emotion and family functioning, providing a rare theoretical and empirical look at how emotions regulate, guide, and influence actions and behaviors within the family. This unique book will provide you with new avenues of research, theory, measurement, and analysis, emphasizing contexts that range from the focus on specific relationships within the family to the impact of contextual influences in family emotionality. Emotions and the Family examines the shift that has taken place in how practitioners and therapists view emotions—as having important interpsychic functions instead of as a function of intrapsychic processes. The book will show you how emotions are involved in almost every aspect of family development: from the beginnings of the family formation (dating, courting, and marriage) to the transition to parenthood (pregnancy, birth, bonding, and attachment) to the dissolution of family relationships (divorce, death). Authors discuss aspects of how the fabric of family life is woven together by the complex interplay of emotions, with essential information on:  marital/family relationships  parenting  socialization  sibling relationships  family health  dysfunctional family processes  family therapy  and much more! Emotions and the Family functions as an invaluable textbook for graduate studies in family sciences, child development, psychology, social work, and sociology. The book is equally effective as a professional resource for clinical practitioners in psychology, marriage and family therapy, and social work.

Emotions and the Family (Marriage & Family Review)

Fabes, Richard

Parenting & Relationships

“The family is the place where minds come in contact with one another”—Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how professionals and practitioners working with today's families view the role of emotions in general family and marital processes. Professionals, researchers, and academics present a wide variety of approaches to the study of emotion and family functioning, providing a rare theoretical and empirical look at how emotions regulate, guide, and influence actions and behaviors within the family. This unique book will provide you with new avenues of research, theory, measurement, and analysis, emphasizing contexts that range from the focus on specific relationships within the family to the impact of contextual influences in family emotionality. Emotions and the Family examines the shift that has taken place in how practitioners and therapists view emotions—as having important interpsychic functions instead of as a function of intrapsychic processes. The book will show you how emotions are involved in almost every aspect of family development: from the beginnings of the family formation (dating, courting, and marriage) to the transition to parenthood (pregnancy, birth, bonding, and attachment) to the dissolution of family relationships (divorce, death). Authors discuss aspects of how the fabric of family life is woven together by the complex interplay of emotions, with essential information on: 
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<li> marital/family relationships </li>
<li> parenting </li>
<li> socialization </li>
<li> sibling relationships </li>
<li> family health </li>
<li> dysfunctional family processes </li>
<li> family therapy </li>
<li> and much more!</li>
</ul> Emotions and the Family functions as an invaluable textbook for graduate studies in family sciences, child development, psychology, social work, and sociology. The book is equally effective as a professional resource for clinical practitioners in psychology, marriage and family therapy, and social work.

Emotions and the Family

Meet the men and women whose groundbreaking work elevated the field of family studies!  In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40 autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family studies, psychology, and child development. Their fascinating stories demonstrate how their family experiences, educational opportunities, and occupational endeavors not only shaped the disciplines they chose but also shaped the theoretical perspectives they utilized and the topics they researched.  From the editors: “These autobiographies document the experiences of scholars from the early twentieth century to the present. The descriptions of early influences on their education, of their graduate school experiences, and of their academic career paths, provides a wealth of valuable material. Since four of these scholars have died and a number are in their eighties or older, these histories provide rich case studies on factors that influence the decision to go to college, get married, pursue an advanced degree, make specific occupational choices, and investigate certain topics. These autobiographies also detail the barriers that early women scholars in the social sciences faced.”  The scholars whose lives you will learn about in Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families include:  Joan Aldous  Katherine R. Allen  Pauline Boss  Carlfred B. Broderick  Wesley R. Burr  Catherine Street Chilman  Harold T. Christensen  Marilyn Coleman  Rand D. Conger  Randal D. Day  William J. Doherty  Evelyn Millis Duvall  Glen H. Elder, Jr.  Bernard Farber  Margaret Feldman  Mark A. Fine  Greer Litton Fox  Frank F. Furstenberg  Viktor Gecas  Harold D. Grotevant  Gerald Handel  Michael E. Lamb  Ralph LaRossa  Gary R. Lee  Helena Znaniecka Lopata  Harriette P. McAdoo  Hamilton McCubbin  Brent C. Miller  Phyllis Moen  Gerhard Neubeck  Gary W. Peterson  Ira L. Reiss  John Scanzoni  Walter R. Schumm  Barbara H. Settles  Laurence Steinberg  Suzanne K. Steinmetz  Sheldon Stryker  Marvin B. Sussman  Irv Tallman

Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars

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