Contents Preface I The nature of work 1 Why people work 2 Work and the way of life 3 The varieties of work 4 Occupational life spans and output curves II The course and cycle of the working life 5 Career patterns and life stages 6 Adolescence as exploration developing a self concept 7 The transition from school to work reality testing 8 The floundering or trial process attempting to implement a self concept 9 The period of establishment the self concept modified and implemented 10 The maintenance stage preserving or being nagged by the self concept 11 The years of decline adjustment to a new self III The dynamics of vocational development 12 The factorial approach to vocational development 13 Vocational development 14 Aptitudes in vocational development 15 Interests and vocational development 16 Personality and vocational development 17 The family in vocational development 18 Economic factors in vocational development 19 Disabilities in vocational development 20 Chance the unknown or uncontrolled factors 21 The synthesizing process IV Implications and applications 22 Vocational adjustment and general adjustment 23 Methods and techniques of vocational psychology and guidance Bibliography How do children decide about their future careers in life is a question to be answered by the psychologists Usually children are influenced in their choice of careers by their peer group or by the decision taken by their parents Both the options may be correct options because children may be suitable for some careers according to their mental abilities and aptitudes but they opt for them for the above reasonsPsychologists therefore have to opt for their intervention in the matter of selection of right type of careers 482 pp.

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Title: The Psychology of Careers : An Introduction to Vocational Development
Publisher: Sarup Book
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN 10: 8176257605
ISBN 13: 9788176257602

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