Since its inception in the early 20th century, career counseling has been steeped in the traditions of positivist worldview. Counselors took on the roles of experts, and the respective client assumed the role of a passive respondent. However, the following decades, with irrevocable and significant changes in the world of work, alongside the ever-increasing needs for guidance in career development, compelled career counselors to modernize their field to meet new challenges.

To achieve this, many turned to constructivist approaches. Essentially, these approaches regard career development as a holistic concept where work and personal life are inextricably intertwined, and individuals are seen as experts in their own lives and in actively shaping their career paths. This is the first book that fully explores this constructivist approach to career counseling.

Involving an international team of recognized authors, the book "Career Counseling: Constructivist Approaches" provides a theoretical background on constructivism, outlines a range of constructivist approaches to career counseling, offers practical application examples of the constructivist approaches, and will help trainers of career counselors, professional counselors, and students in understanding and applying the constructivist approaches.

The book is structured into four parts. The first two parts are shorter and focus on the theoretical understanding of constructivism and career counseling, examining their application in different cultural settings. The third part presents a range of constructivist and highly practical approaches to career counseling. The fourth part assesses constructivist career development. Career counselors and students who wish to enhance their knowledge of this vital new approach will find this valuable and unique book an essential read.

Mary McMahon is a lecturer at the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. Wendy Patton is a professor and Head of School at the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

The content includes:

• A review of constructivism

• Constructivist approaches to career counseling

• Assessment of constructivist career development