APA Handbook of Career Intervention

The two-volume APA Handbook of Career Intervention aims to consolidate and advance knowledge about the scientific foundations and practical applications of career intervention. It offers an inclusive resource for understanding and applying principles and practices of career intervention to assist diverse individuals and groups across developmental stages to construct personally meaningful and socially relevant work lives. The handbook presents information about the historical, contemporary, theoretical, demographic, assessment-based, and professional foundations of career intervention (Volume 1), as a well as specific career intervention models, methods, and materials within each career service noted above and applied to easing career transitions (Volume 2). In whole or in part, the Handbook aims to be useful to researchers, practitioners, educators, consultants, policy-makers, and students alike across a full array of professions including psychology, counseling, education, and business and industry.

Paul J. Hartung , PhD, is professor of family and community medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA and adjunct professor of counseling at the University of Akron, USA. He has authored more than 75 journal articles and book chapters and edited two books dealing with career development, assessment, and counseling. He is the current editor of The Career Development Quarterly and also serves on several editorial boards including Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Career Assessment , and Journal of Counseling and Development . He is a fellow of APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) and the National Career Development Association. In 2009 he received the APA Division 17 John L. Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Career and Personality Research. He currently serves as U.S. national liaison to the International Association of Applied Psychology. Mark L. Savickas , PhD, is professor of family and community medicine at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, USA and adjunct professor of counselor education at Kent State University, USA. He is president of the Counseling Psychology Division in the International Association of Applied Psychology (2011-2014) and serves as a visiting professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa; 2012-2014) and at the Institute for Employment Research at Warwick University (United Kingdom; 2013-2016). His 80 articles, 40 book chapters, and 500 presentations to professional groups have dealt with vocational behavior and career counseling. He edited The Career Development Quarterly (1991-1998) and is currently editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior (1999-). In 1994, he received the John L. Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Career and Personality Research from APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) and the Leona Tyler Award for Distinguished Contributions in 2011. In 1996, he received the Eminent Career Award from the National Career Development Association. He is a fellow of the American Counseling Association, APA, the American Psychological Society, and the National Career Development Association. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. W. Bruce Walsh , PhD, is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University, USA. Dr. Walsh is the founder and charter editor of the Journal of Career Assessment . He has coauthored and coedited 24 books and 150 journal articles. In 1998 he served as president of the APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) and in 2010 president of APA Division 34 (Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology). From 1990 to 2002 he served as the director of training for the Counseling Psychology Program at Ohio State. In 2004 he received the Leona Tyler Award from APA Division 17 in recognition of outstanding accomplishments. In 2011 he received the W. James Cosse Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Counseling Psychology for extraordinary contributions to scholarly research and the professional practice of counseling psychology. He holds fellow status in APA and Association for Psychological Science and is licensed as a psychologist in Ohio.