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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Pryor; Jim Bright |
ISBN: | 9780415551885 0415551889 9780415806343 0415806348 9780203871461 0203871464 |
OCLC Number: | 651488390 |
Description: | ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Preface: "Life is uncertain" -- Complexity, uncertainty and careers -- Complexity, uncertainty and career development theory -- The chaos theory of careers : background and development -- The chaos theory of careers : attractors -- The chaos theory of careers : patterns and fractals -- The chaos theory of careers : research support -- Strategies for chaos theory career counseling and assessment -- Practical applications : counseling and assessment -- Practical applications : meaning, purpose and spirituality -- Practical applications : organizational development -- Where are we going and where we have been. |
Responsibility: | Robert Pryor and Jim Bright. |
Abstract:
Outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. This book represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty and the potential for information overload.
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"The Chaos Theory of Careers provides a well-explained and empirically supported framework for applying chaos theory to career and rehabilitatioin counselling practices." - Hoi Ling Irene Mok, University of Sydney, Australia Read more...
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