Counseling and Action
Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity
Editors: Young, Richard A., Domene, Jose, Valach, Ladislav (Eds.)
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- Discusses conceptual issues
- Contextualizes the action theory approach to counseling
- Provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective
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Engaging in action is at the heart of our most meaningful experiences. And given the fast-paced, goal-driven nature of modern society, engagement in action is also central to how we perceive ourselves. Action has traditionally been viewed as an end product of the counseling process, but now a bold new redefinition makes counseling not only a driver of action, but an action in itself.
Counseling and Action couples a timely update on the multiple roles of action in counseling with an action-based framework for enhancing progress between client and professional. Grounded in the core concepts of contextual action theory as well as key aspects of counseling (e.g., identity, intentionality, emotion), the book explicates an approach that is responsive to client complexities and the larger social conditions that frame them. Expert-penned chapters apply theory to practice, illustrating levels of engagement in action as counselor and client negotiate goals and work toward their realization. And an especially useful section offers guidelines for intervening with specific populations and addressing particular issues. Among the topics covered:
- Designing projects for career construction.
- Agentic action in context.
- Counseling intentional addiction recovery grounded in relationships and social meaning.
- The action of mindfulness in counseling.
- A contextual action theory perspective on self-efficacy in individual counseling.
- Counseling processes and procedures through the lens of contextual action theory.
With its forceful argument for a quantum leap in both theory and practice, Counseling and Action is transformative reading for professionals, educators, and graduate students in social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and counseling.
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Counseling and Action
Pages 1-10
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Designing Projects for Career Construction
Pages 13-31
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Career Counseling: Joint Contributions of Contextual Action Theory and the Systems Theory Framework
Pages 33-49
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Agentic Action in Context
Pages 51-68
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Motivation and Volition in Vocational Psychology: An Action Control Perspective
Pages 69-89
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Counseling and Action
- Book Subtitle
- Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity
- Editors
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- Richard A. Young
- Jose Domene
- Ladislav Valach
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-0773-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-0773-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-0772-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-5208-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 350
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
