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The book captures the developments, challenges and opportunities in the fields of counselling and career guidance in Asia, highlighting issues and concerns that are unique to Asian regions as well as those that are common with other parts of the world. It has utility, therefore, for readers from all countries.
List of contents
Introduction: Counselling and career guidance in Asia
Part 1: Counselling 1. Using a Delphi technique to build a competency framework for full-time counselling teachers in Taiwan 2. Elementary school teachers' satisfaction with their collaboration with counsellors: effects of teacher attitudes, teacher expectations and counsellor professional traits 3. The experiences of school counsellors in Hong Kong: implications for policy innovation 4. An evaluation of a pilot counselling model in Hong Kong for individuals with mild-to-moderate psychological issues 5. Reflective practice through clinical supervision: implications for professional and organisational sustainability
Part 2: Career Guidance 6. Career guidance and counselling: the nature and types of career-related teacher social support in Hong Kong secondary schools 7. A comparison between flipped and lecture-based course delivery of a career development programme for Chinese undergraduates 8. Employer attributes attracting engineering graduate job aspirants: insights from the Aspire model 9. Characteristics of longer-term versus transitional NEETs in Hong Kong: implications for career support services 10. Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults 11. Career development in Macao: a perspective representing small states and territories 12. The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators 13. The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence
About the author
Anuradha J. Bakshi is the In-Charge Principal and Professor, and the Head of the Department of Human Development at the Nirmala Niketan College of Home Science, University of Mumbai, India. She is a Consulting Editor of the
British Journal of Guidance and Counselling and on the Editorial Board of multiple journals.
Mantak Yuen is Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Creativity and Talent Development, Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education, at the University of Hong Kong, China. He is a Registered Counselling and Educational Psychologist, a Career Development Facilitator, and course coordinator of MEd (Guidance & Counselling).
