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NCDA offers carefully selected products for all career development professionals. Below you will find an alphabetical listing, or you can use the Search feature to search by author, title or keyword.
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Active Engagement: Enhancing the Career Counseling Process
3rd Edition
The third edition focuses on career processes and techniques alongside a series of case studies illustrating the ways in which career counselors have applied the active engagement method.Author/Editor: Norman E. Amundson
Year: 2009Adult Career Development: Concepts, Issues, and Practices
3rd Edition
Career development experts provide cutting edge theories and interventions pertaining to adult career development. This useful book provides readers with new insights and strategies for working with diverse career clients in business, industry, community, and educational settings.Author/Editor: Spencer G. Niles
Year: 2002Boomers' Job Search Guide
An easy to follow guide for mature workers in a job search. Boomers Job Search Guide is an easy to follow guide for mature workers in a job search. The book covers the 10 primary aspects of job search on specific information for the over 50 worker and may be used effectively with individuals or with groups.Author/Editor: Saundra Marling & Jill Pfaff Waterbury
Year: 2006Building Workforce Strength
Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development
This book explores the perspectives of experienced practitioners, sharing ideas about building and sustaining organizational strength through workforce development practices and systems.Author/Editor: Ron Elsdon
Year: 2010Career & Caregiving
Empowering the Shadow Workforce of Family Caregivers
Discover how counselors and other career professionals have handled caregiving responsibilities, balancing the needs of family members with their own needs and work responsibilities. In this ninth monograph from NCDA, readers will see how career and caregiving fit together.Author/Editor: Sally Gelardin
Year: 2009Career Counseling Casebook:
A Resource for Practitioners, Students, and Counselor Educators
In this book, the leading career development theorists and practitioners’ present state-of-the-art career counseling strategies for helping clients resolve their career issues. Available in DVD format!Author/Editor: Spencer G. Niles, Jane Goodman and Mark Pope
Year: 2002Career Counseling for African Americans
African Americans are now at parity with the graduation rates of White Americans, yet disparities in employment continue to abound.Author/Editor: W. Bruce Walsh, Rosie P. Bingham, Michael T. Brown, and Connie M. Ward
Year: 2001Career Development Across the K-16 Years:
Bridging the Present to Satisfying and Successful Futures
Dr. Lapan provides an inegrative contextual model for career counseling with children and young adults.Author/Editor: Richard T Lapan
Year: 2004Career Development Facilitator Curriculum
INSTRUCTOR PACKAGE
The NCDA Career Development Facilitator (CDF) Training is a 120-hour instructional program designed for individuals who assist others with career development. The training has value for both front-line personnel and program administrators in a milieu of settings.Author/Editor: Harris-Bowlsbey, Reile, Suddarth
Year: 2008Career Development Facilitator Curriculum
STUDENT PACKAGE
The NCDA Career Development Facilitator (CDF) Training is a 120-hour instructional program designed for individuals who assist others with career development. The training has value for both front-line personnel and program administrators in a milieu of settings.Author/Editor: Harris-Bowlsbey, Reile, Suddarth
Year: 2008Career Development Facilitator eLearning Curriculum, version 1.4
eLearning Curriculum
Year: 2010Career Education: History and Future
Dr. Hoyt will share his thoughts and dreams and those of his colleagues from the 1970s and '80s who laid the foundation and fought the fight to infuse career concepts into schools, businesses and communities.Author/Editor: Kenneth B. Hoyt
Year: 2005Careers in Renewable Energy
Numerous job opportunities await in the fast-growing field of renewable energy. Grab this handy book and discover how green energy can be a part of your future. Resources include training/workshops, universities/schools, professional associations/societies, publications, reference websites, and energy programs.Author/Editor: Gregory McNamee
Year: 2008A Case Study Approach to Ethics in Career Development
Exploring Shades of Gray
Learn how to tackle some of the most vexing questions that career development professionals encounter today, while enhancing your skills for addressing future ethical dilemmas. With its case study design, this monograph provides hands-on experience with ethics terminology, resources, and issues. You are invited to actively apply ethics resources and decision-making strategies to analyze real-world ethical dilemmas. Each dilemma presented includes detailed, guided discussion of key issues and recommended actions.Author/Editor: Julia Panke Makela
Year: 2009Choosing A Vocation
The book is a complete reprint of the original book by Frank Parsons who played such an important early role in developing the field of career guidance. The introduction and post script is written by Carl McDaniels, NVGA President 1973-1974 and a preface by Janet Lenz, NCDA President, 2004-2005.Author/Editor: Frank Parsons
Year: 2005A Counselor's Guide to Career Assessment Instruments
5th Edition
The current edition features 55 reviews of 71 instruments and has additional information on nearly 300 other career assessments. Instruments are divided into five categories to facilitate location and selection of appropriate instruments by counselors, career development professionals, assessment specialists, and counselor educators.Author/Editor: Edited by Edwin A. Whitfield, Rich Feller, Chris Wood
Year: 2009Creating Careers with Confidence
This compact self-paced workbook teaches students about the career development process, leads them through the process, and offers a logical step-by-step approach resulting in clarity, direction, and increased career decision-making self-efficacy. Once students understand their full potential they will discover ways to use it in the world of work.Author/Editor: Edward Anthony Colozzi
Year: 2009Decision Time: A Guide to Career Enhancement
3rd Edition
"If your clients or students are unfulfilled in their work life, their dissatisfaction will most certainly affect other areas of their life: namely, self-esteem, relationships with those close to them, their lifestyle, and work performance." The book will provide insights into working with clients/students to help them realize their goals etc.Author/Editor: Michael Shahnasarian, Ph.D.
Year: 2005Designing and Implementing Career Programs: A Handbook for Effective Practice
The purpose of this handbook is to stimulate discussion among senior managers, managers, practitioners, administrative staff, and stakeholders about the cost-effective design and delivery of career resources.Author/Editor: James P. Sampson, Jr. PhD
Year: 2008Developing & Managing Career Resources
What do career service centers look like without a strong career resource library? They would resemble a turtle without a shell or a football player without a helmet... you get the drift.Author/Editor: Susan A. Epstein, MS and Janet G. Lenz, PhD
Year: 2008Distance Counseling: Expanding the Counselor's Reach
Written by highly experienced distance counseling specialists, this book comprehensively and authoritatively addresses the wide range of tasks involved in implementing distance counseling into traditional practice.Author/Editor: Editors: James Malone, Randy Miller & Garry Walz
Year: 2007e-Portfolios: Emerging Opportunities for Student Affairs
This issue presents the range of current systems, examines various design considerations associated with them, provides examples of models in place at selected institutions, and stresses the importance for student affairs leadership of creating a college- or university- wide e-portfolio delivery system.Author/Editor: Editors: Jeff W. Garis, Jon C. Dalton
Year: 2007Experiential Activities For Teaching Career Counseling Classes & Facilitating Career Groups
Volume II
This second volume of their best-seller has 76 new tried-and-true activities designed to present career development concepts in interesting and exciting ways.Author/Editor: Edited by Mark Pope & Carole W. Minor
Year: 2005Experiential Activities for Teaching Career Counseling Classes and for Faciltating Career Groups
Volume III
This third volume of their best-seller has all new tried-and-true activities designed to present career development concepts in interesting and exciting ways. Developed by many of the field's leading practitioners for use in both classroom and career group settings, these hands-on activities are organized in nine sections: self knowledge and career decisions; career development theory; career assessments; occupational information; job search and workplace issues; designing and delivering career programs and services; diversity, equity, and inclusion in career development; technology and media in career counseling; and comprehensive and culminating activities.Author/Editor: Dr. Mark Pope, Dr. Carole W. Minor, and Dr. Tracy M. Lara
Year: 2011Green Careers
Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future
People of all ages and backgrounds are seeking work in career fields that will help save the planet, yet many people are unaware of the variety of green careers available. This unique career guidance book, based on labor market research, covers green jobs representing almost every area of career interest.Author/Editor: Jim Cassio & Alice Ruth
Year: 2009Group Career Counseling: Practices and Principles
Group Career Counseling can be used by any professional counselor who wants to utilize group counseling principles and skills to help individuals with their career decision making and/or group counseling class for students who want to gain insight and understanding of this unique counseling intervention.Author/Editor: K. Richard Pyle, Ph.D.
Year: 2007How to Market Career Development Programs and Services
Written for career development professionals who must serve two roles: careers expert and marketer.Author/Editor: Carol A. Edds
Year: 2008How to Plan and Develop A Career Center, Second Edition
A collection of 12 essays written by experts that discuss all aspects of establishing and running a career center independently or within a school or other institution.Author/Editor: Donald A. Schutt, Jr.
Year: 2007Inspiring Career Practitioners to Connect Theory and Practice
This DVD contains video footage of some of the leading Career Development Theorists. Included on this DVD is detailed information about John Holland’s and Donald Super’s theory. Footage of John Krumboltz, Nancy Schlossberg, and Sunny Hansen is also included. Each theorist discusses the core concepts of their theory as well as strengths of the theory and practical applications for practitioners. This DVD plays on a Windows format.Author/Editor: Rich Feller, John Holland, Donald Super, John Krumboltz, Nancy Schlossberg, Sunny Hansen
Year: 2009The Internet: A Tool for Career Planning
3rd Edition
This book provides counselors and career development professionals with a valuable resource to help persons engage in effective career planning.Author/Editor: Debra S. Osborn, Margaret Riley Dikel, James P. Sampson, Jr.
Year: 2011A Job Search Manual for Counselors and Counselor Educators
How to Navigate and Promote Your Counseling Career
This career planning handbook is full of practical, how-to tips for counselors looking for positions in counselor education, college and community college counseling, schools, and community agencies. Whether you are trying to land your first job, changing career paths, or launching your own private practice, this engaging book demystifies the process and highlights what you need to know and do to target and attain fulfilling work.Author/Editor: Shannon Hodges and Amy Reece Connelly
Year: 2010Knowledge Nomads and the Nervously Employed
Scholarly, practical, and highly readable Knowledge Nomads and the Nervously Employed explores the abilities and personal traits an individual needs in order to maintain living-wage employment in the developing global economy.Author/Editor: Rich Feller and Judy Whichard
Year: 2005The Mid-Career Success Guide:
Planning for the Second Half of Your Working Life
Most people realize that the employment deal has changed:the days of lifetime employment, or even a clear trajectory up the corporate ladder, are long gone. Dozens of surveys merely quantify what we all know--that education, hard work, and loyalty are no longer enough to guarantee job security.Author/Editor: Sally J. Power
Year: 2006More Than a Job: Helping Your Teenagers Find Success
The teen years are an excellent time to start thinking about a potential career and to investigate all of the different opportunities available. Motivating adolescents to become actively engaged in their own career development is not always easy, but this book makes it fun.Author/Editor: Richard T. Lapan
Year: 2008NCDA Coffee Mug
NCDA's Coffee Mug is a perfect size and is a great gift item.NCDA Journal
This spiral bound chip-cover Journal is exactly what the counselor called for! Lined pages along with a photo holder, contact information, and a 2-year overview calendar. 5" x 7" Journal. Photo holder 4-1/2" x 6-3/4".The Psychology of Working:
A New Perspective for Career Development, Counseling and Public Policy
In this original and major new work, David Blustein places working at the same level of attentional for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, such as intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socioeconomic inequities.Year: 2006
Revitalizing Retirement
Reshaping Your Identity, Relationships, and Purpose
In preparation for retirement, we are often urged to build up our financial portfolio or perhaps down-size our home or move closer to family. Often neglected in this process, however, are the psychological ramifications that come with the transition into retirement. It is important for retirees to make a plan for their retirement financially, but also to take stock of their psychological portfolio at the same time. This means taking an honest look at how your sense of identity will change with retirement, how your relationships and support systems may change, and how your sense of purpose will be affected.Author/Editor: Nancy K. Schlossberg
Year: 2009Starting & Growing a Business in the New Economy
Considering starting a business? Want tips to grow an existing business? If you are a risk-taker with an independent style, you will benefit by reading the stories and strategies of successful career entrepreneurs. These contributors share from a dual perspective as active counselors who have grown their own business.Author/Editor: Edited by Sally Gelardin, Ed.D.
Year: 2007Strength-Based Approach to Career Development Using Appreciative Inquiry
This monograph details the Appreciative Inquiry approach including activities and a participant guide to move these concepts into practice. This is a great resource for anyone interested in approaching career development from a strength-based perspective.Author/Editor: Donald A. Schutt , Jr
Year: 2007Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed
Whether a first-time job seeker searching for that elusive entry-level position or a seasoned employee facing tougher and tougher competition in a difficult economy, SWEATY PALMS takes readers through each step of the interviewing process, from preparation to dress to negotiating an offer.Author/Editor: H. Anthony Medley
Year: 2005Teaching Career Development:
A Primer for Instructors and Presenters
Career counselors help individuals clarify and achieve their life/career plans. Becoming a career counselor and impacting people’s lives in such a powerful, positive way is exciting.Author/Editor: Debra S. Osborn, Ph.D.
Year: 2008Turning Points
Turning Points Managing Career Transitions with Meaning & Purpose
Our world is changing at a faster pace than ever before. New technologies, global communications, diverse populations and shifting expectations drive the changes that impact our daily lives. This rapid rate of change leaves many of us feeling uncertain, overwhelmed and confused.Author/Editor: Lisa Severy, Jack & Phoebe Ballard
Year: 2008Unfocused Kids - Helping Students to Focus
Unfocused Kids provides a hands-on resource for all kinds of educators with an effort to help students with their plans after high school.Author/Editor: Suzy Mygatt Wakefield
Year: 2004What Do I Like to Do? 101 Activities to Identify Interests and Plan Careers
This resource assists school counselors, career development professionals, and counselor educators in the measurement of a student's interests and provides reproducible activities for immediate use.Author/Editor: Janet E. Wall
Year: 2005Featured Product
Inspiring Career Practitioners to Connect Theory and Practice
Author/Editor: Rich Feller, John Holland, Donald Super, John Krumboltz, Nancy Schlossberg, Sunny Hansen
Green Careers
Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future
Author/Editor: Jim Cassio & Alice Ruth
A Counselor's Guide to Career Assessment Instruments
5th Edition
Author/Editor: Edited by Edwin A. Whitfield, Rich Feller, Chris Wood
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