Recognized by business managers as a useful and practical tool to assist them in responding to a set of complex business challenges, the need for outplacement counseling - the process of assisting employees who have lost their jobs to develop effective career plans and to find new employment - has grown dramatically during the past two decades. Given this rapid expansion of the field, assembling, organizing, and clarifying the body of knowledge and information available about outplacement has become critically important. The first comprehensive effort in the field, this book presents authoritative, up-to-date information on an exhaustive range of outplacement topics. A psychologist and experienced outplacement practitioner, the author has recently been chosen as one of the charter fellows of the Outplacement Institute, the sole certifying organization for outplacement practitioners. Of value to all those interested in the field including current and future practitioners as well as human resources professionals, this volume contains essential information for candidates receiving outplacement services, counseling students, and researchers involved in the study of counseling in business and industry. With such a broad audience in mind, it contains a wide range of information--counseling theory and practical suggestions geared expressly to the needs of practitioners, descriptive material on all topics, and brief case histories of actual outplacement candidates. Written in non-technical language, the volume brings to life the flavor of outplacement practice. This unique volume covers topics not addressed elsewhere in the current outplacement literature including: the psychological barriers to a successful job search the behavioral and counseling implications of the outplacement setting the theoretical basis of outplacement counseling the relation between outplacement and psychotherapy the professional development opportunities for outplacement practitioners the supervision of outplacement practitioners the cross-cultural issues to be considered in outplacement the relation of outplacement to other career development professionals, and the marketing of outplacement services Also of importance, the appendices offer data not previously disseminated to the general public including: competencies standards for OPC practitioners as established by the International Association of Outplacement Professionals (IAOP) standards of ethical practice for outplacement professionals as established by the IAOP, and listings of information resources for OPC practitioners and candidates featuring a section on computer-based sources for conducting career-related research

Pickman, Alan J., author; Salomon-Dekel, Mairav, cover designer

Alan J Pickman; Mairav Salomon-Dekel

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642 ($40)

Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

New York, New York ; Hove [England]: Routledge

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

United States, United States of America

Hillsdale, N.J, New Jersey, 1994

New York, New York, 2009

1, 1994/11/12

2013

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-147) and index.

This book, which can be of value both to professionals in the field and to persons receiving the services, presents an overview of the profession of outplacement counseling. It contains a wide variety of information, including both counseling theory and practical suggestions. The book also contains many brief case histories of actual outplacement candidates. The book is organized in 21 chapters that cover the following topics: (1) introduction to the field of outplacement counseling; (2) consulting to organizations; (3) establishing the counseling relationship; (4) assessment in outplacement counseling; (5) barriers to successful job search; (6) group services; (7) physical, behavioral, and counseling implications of the outplacement setting; (8) toward a theory of outplacement counseling; (9) common patterns of counselor-client interaction; (10) is outplacement ever therapy?; (11) background qualifications; (12) professional development; (13) supervision; (14) cross-cultural issues; (15) women and outplacement; (16) family issues; (17) international issues; (18) ethics; (19) relation of outplacement to other career development professionals; (20) marketing outplacement services; and (21) the future of outplacement. Three appendixes include competencies standards for outplacement practitioners, standards of ethical practice for outplacement professionals, and a list of 70 resources for outplacement practitioners. Contains 62 references. (KC)

This text focuses on the process of assisting employees who have lost their jobs to develop career plans and to find new employment. Topics include: the theoretical basis of outplacement counselling; the relation between outplacement and psychotherapy; and the supervision of practitioners.

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2024-07-01