Careers Library

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Supporting Others' Careers - Career Guidance

 

 

 

 

 

 

This section includes books which will be helpful to trainers and supervisors in supporting the careers of their trainees.

AGCAS – Reflections on Change 1967-2007
Authors: AGCAS – Edited by BUTLER Tony & DANE Margaret
Publisher: AGCAS 2007
ISBN: 978 0 9514865 2 8
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB033/BUT
…Although the project was called the AGCAS history project, we eventually settled not on a narrative history but on a series of articles on different themes by a range of authors who were centrally involved in the developments described. These recollections are inevitably subjective and there will no doubt be readers who think, it wasn’t quite like that – and maybe so. However we are delighted that so many people were persuaded to contribute […]. We hope that all readers will find something of interest, clarification and even amusement in these pages.

The Counselling approach to Careers Guidance
Authors: ALI Lynda & GRAHAM Barbara
Publisher: Routledge 2009
ISBN: 978 0 415 12173 6
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB547
…offers a structured model which can be adapted to meet the specific needs of each client. Through detailed case material [the authors] show how to use counselling strategies with clients to enable them to change unhelpful patterns of thought and to move towards achievable goals. The book also explores materials available to careers counsellors and discusses important issues affecting their training and development within the public sector. This will be a useful handbook for experienced advisors and trainees in the careers service and a range of professional settings

Managing Careers - Into the 21st Century
Authors: ARNOLD John
Publisher: Paul Chapman Publishing – Sage 1997
ISBN: 1-85396-317-8
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB030/ARN
This book provides and up-to-date and wide-ranging analysis of how careers are changing and how they can be managed in the 21st century. This book evaluates the many techniques available for managing careers, including mentoring, personal development plans, development work assignments, networking and succession management.

Advisor Manual - Setting a course for career success
Authors: Association of American Medical Colleges - Careers in Medicine
Publisher: Association of American Medical Colleges 2006
ISBN: N/A - to reorder fax USA 202-828-1123
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB018/AAM
This advisor manual will help you in your school’s implementation of a four year career-planning programme designed by the AAMC. As a “Careers in Medicine” advisor you will be helping students in their career planning and in finding the speciality or other medical career that fits them best.

Promoting Partnership for Health - Effective Interprofessional Education - Argument, Assumption & Evidence
Authors: BARR Hugh, KOPPEL Ivan, REEVES Scott, HAMMICK Marilyn, FREETH Della
Publisher: Blackwell / CAIPE 2005
ISBN: 1 4051 1654 4
Library Reference Number: SOG/HC102/BAR
A review of the effectiveness of interprofessional education in health and social care. This book features such topics as: case studies about interprofessional education, optimum conditions for harnessing the benefits, and a review of relevant theoretical perspectives and offers conclusions.

Promoting Partnership for Health - Effective Interprofessional Education – Development, Delivery & Evaluation
Authors: BARR Hugh, KOPPEL Ivan, REEVES Scott, HAMMICK Marilyn, FREETH Della
Publisher: Blackwell / CAIPE 2005
ISBN: 1-4051-1653-6
Library Reference Number: SOG/HC501/FRE
This book presents a practical guide to the development, delivery and evaluation of effective Interprofessional education in health and social care. It is a book to be used. If you have a hands on role in Interprofessional education, it is a practice manual aimed at helping you in your work […] It is deliberately focussed on discussing and illustrating ways and means towards effective Interprofessional education, addressing initial development and sustainability...

Managing Careers - Theory and Practice
Authors: BARUCH Yehuda
Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd 2004
ISBN: 978 0 273 67800 7
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB046/BAR
This book addresses the concepts and principles of career planning and management in a contemporary context. It includes: comprehensive coverage of this fast developing subject, the theory of managing careers integrated into both traditional and contemporary management thinking, and an international outlook that offers a realistic view of the world at work.

Signposting Medical Careers for Doctors
Authors: British Medical Association – Board of Medical Education
Publisher: British Medical Association – Board of Medical Education 2003
ISBN: 0-7279-1820-6
Library Reference Number: SOG/BG504/BMA
This report highlights the current situation regarding career advice provision for medical students, doctors in training and career grade doctors. It examines the key concerns of current provision and the methods used to counsel doctors in their careers.

Management Learning – Integrating Perspective in Theory and Practice
Authors: BURGOYNE John & REYNOLDS Michael
Publisher: Sage Publications 1997
ISBN: 13 978 0 8039 7643 6
Library Reference Number: SOG/HB538/BUR
Management Learning introduces the context and history of management learning and offers a critical framework within which the key debates can be understood. The book also provides an incisive discussion of the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning, and charts the diverse external factors influencing and directing the processes of learning. The volume concludes with a look forward towards the future reconstruction of the field.

Chicken Soup for the Soul - 101 stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit
Authors: CANFIELD, Jack - HANSEN, Mark Victor
Publisher: Vermilion 1999
ISBN: 978-0-09-181956-9
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB286/CAN
A heart-warming collection of tales that will inspire you to live your dreams. The stories demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity and faith and they share a collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching and the overcoming of obstacles.

Guiding Doctors in Managing Their Careers - A toolkit for tutors, trainers, mentors and appraisers
Authors: CHAMBERS Ruth, MOHANNA Kay, THORNETT Andrew, FIELD Steve
Publisher: Radcliffe 2006
ISBN: 1-85775-611-8
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB002/CHA
This book incorporates, in a practical way, all the key concepts in Modernising Medical Careers, the NHS Priorities, the NHS Knowledge and Skills framework, and new variations in career pathways. It also distinguishes between career information, guidance and counselling and explains the required competencies for each.

Cultivating a thinking Surgeon - New perspectives on clinical teaching, learning and assessment
Authors: DE COSSART Linda, FISH Della
Publisher: TFM Publishing 2005
ISBN: 1-903378-26-5
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB303/COS
This book is an invaluable resource for those both reorganising teaching programmes and those working with learning surgeons/ doctors. It emphasizes what is involved in learning to be a surgeon who can engage in professional judgement, as opposed to being trained to demonstrate behaviour expected by assessors.

The Skilled Helper – A problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping – 7th Edition
Authors: EGAN Gerard
Publisher: Brooks/Cole 200245
ISBN: 0-534-36731-3
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB565/EGA
Gerard Egan’s quintessential book for helpers – known for its successful approach to effective helping – will show you the collaborative nature of the helper-client relationship as it leads you step by step through the counselling process. Using a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action, Egan patiently helps you master the steps of the helping model, building your competence and confidence as a helper along the way. In the 7th Edition, Egan presents: the most recent research, an emphasis on hope and optimism, and self-healing approach within the text’s new focus on “positive psychology”, which is integrated throughout the text, new information on communication skills with a fresh emphasis on client-helper dialogue, an updated approach to handling client reluctance and resistance, new information on using internet searches for online helping and allied literatures and fresh examples from business and organisational sources. 

Practical Applications of Psychology – 4th Edition
Authors: GRASHA Anthony F.
Publisher: Harper Collins 1995
ISBN: 0-673-52340-3
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB566/GRA
A personal, engaging and valuable book of discovery, [this book] explores a wide range of psychology’s applications for the individual. After presenting principles and concepts from many areas in the field, the book shows readers how to apply them through personal activities. Utilising critical evaluation, readers are encouraged to develop action plans to help them make more effective decisions, modify their behaviour, communicate and relate to others better, manage stress and develop positive self-images. This new edition incorporates cutting edge research, a new chapter on critical thinking that introduces better ways of understanding and explaining everyday behaviour, and an extra chapter on relationship management. Gender diversity and cross-cultural emphasis represent the work of female scholars and minorities. A focus on the consumer increases the focus on thinking critically about information from popular media, including advertising and news stories. Chapter content is supported by useful pedagogical devices, such as “things to do” sections and self-analysis quesitons.

Careers Guidance in Context
Authors: GOTHARD Bill, MIGNOT Phil, OFFER Marcus, RUFF Melvyn
Publisher: SAGE Publications 2001
ISBN: 0 7619 6906 3
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB112/GOT
This book re-evaluates the concept of “a career” in the light of economic restructuring, globalisation and the growth of I.T. It will be invaluable to students on courses in careers guidance, counselling and education, as well as professionals who need to keep up to date with current thinking and practice.

Career Management - Third Edition
Authors: GREENHAUS Jeffrey H, CALLANAN Gerard A, GODSHALK Veronica M.
Publisher: Thomson South Western 2008
ISBN: 0 324 55359 5
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB048/GRE
This book is aimed at individuals learning about career dynamics, HR professionals, and researchers in career development. This book covers such topics as: Careers management theories and application, stages of career development, job stress and contemporary issues, and career management in work organisation.

Teaching and Learning in Primary Care
Authors: HAYS Richard
Publisher: Radcliffe 2006
ISBN: 1-85775-756-4
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB019/HAY
Designed for undergraduate and vocational teaching, this guide provides vital guidance and support and support to GP’s with teaching responsibilities and lecturers/ tutors in primary care. It contains practical advice and theory covering the day-to-day teaching in the real world.

Success and Failure in Professional Education: Assessing the Evidence
Authors: ILOTT Irene, MURPHY Roger
Publisher: Whurr 1999
ISBN: 1-86156-070-2
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB495/ILO
This is the first book to focus on the assessors’ feelings, thoughts and behaviour when failing students. The initial context considered is professional education where success confers “competence to practice” a profession such as medicine, nursing, school teaching, social work or occupational therapy. The reasons why failing can be so difficult are explained. Best supervisory and assessment practices are described. The principles associated with reviewing appropriate evidence throughout the assessment cycle are outlined in a way which will promote improved practice in professional education. The aim is to assist assessors to confront the challenge of unsafe or potentially incompetent students. The privilege of professional self-regulation demands that these issues are addressed scrupulously.

Learning in Groups - A handbook for face-to-face and online environments
Authors: JAQUES David, SALMON Gilly
Publisher: Routledge 2000
ISBN: 0 415 36526 0
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB138/JAQ
This book not only promotes understanding of group methods, but also develops group learning skills in students and tutors by showing a range of practical exercises and group experiences to be used. Areas covered include: how students learn, collaboration and communication, structuring tasks, action research, and how to make learning more real.

Choosing Futures - Young people's decision-making in education, training and careers markets
Authors: FOSKETT Nicholas, HEMSLEY-BROWN Jane
Publisher: Routledge Falmer 2001
ISBN: 0 415 23239 2
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB233/FOS
This book offers a wide-ranging perspective on how young people and their parents make choices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. The book reveals how choices depend on a range of factors: personal experiences, family histories and their perception of education and careers.

Career Counselling - Constructivist approaches
Authors: MCMAHON Mary, PATTON Wendy
Publisher: Routledge 2006
ISBN: 978 0 415 38563 6
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB115/MCM
The first book to fully explore the Constructivist Approach to career counselling. This book includes: a theoretical background to constructivism, a range of approaches to counselling, and examples of practical application. This book will assist counsellors, practitioners and students in implementing constructivist approaches.

Promoting Partnership for Health – The Case for Interprofessional Collaboration – In Health and Social Care
Authors: MEADS Geoffrey, ASHCROFT John, with BARR Hugh, SCOTT Rosalind, WILD Andrea
Publisher: Blackwell / CAIPE 2005
ISBN: 1-4051-1103-8
Library Reference Number: SOG/HC503/MEA
…recognises and explores the premium that modern health systems place on closer working relationships. Each chapter adopts a consistent format and a clear framework for professional relationships, considering those with the same profession, other professions, new partners, policy actors, the public and with patients. Highlights the barriers to collaboration, how to overcome them and the resulting dividends. Enlivens health policy with a view to transformative adaptations in the workplace. Draws on international examples of effective practice for local application.

Career Management – An approach for medical schools, deaneries, royal colleges and trustsAuthors: Modernising Medical Careers – working group for career management
Publisher: (DOH) TSO 2005
ISBN: 0-11-703571-8
Library Reference Number: SOG/BG190/MMC
This document is the first to highlight a potential approach to the delivery of career management initiatives for doctors. It looks at how a career management system can be developed to meet a doctor’s specific needs by setting out a vision for career management between August 2005 and the end of 2007…

Training with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) – skills for managers, trainers and communicators
Authors: O’CONNOR Joseph, SEYMOUR John
Publisher: Thorsons 1994
ISBN: 0-72252853-1
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB499/OCO
What are the differences between outstanding trainers and the rest? There is now a practical answer to this question, provided by NLP modelling skills. They are published here for the first time and give you the knowledge and skill to learn faster and improve the results you create...

The Magic of Metaphor - 77 stories for Teachers, Trainers & Thinkers
Authors: OWEN Nick
Publisher: Crown House Publishing 2001
ISBN: 1904424414
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB279/OWE
A collection of stories designed to engage, inspire and transform the reader. Some of the stories motivate, some are spiritual and some provide strategies for excellence. All promote positive feelings, encourage confidence and vision. This book is useful for counsellors, health workers, psychologists, managers and trainers.

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Hard Wired - Unleashing the power of personality to become a new millennium leader
Authors: PEARMAN Roger R
Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing 1998
ISBN: 0 89106 116 9
Library Reference Number: SOG/HC069/PEA
This book provides the tools and step-by-step guidance you will need to evaluate your strengths, identify your blind spots, and plan a course of action for mastering the leadership competencies of the twenty-first century.

Managing Transitions - Support for individuals at key points of change
Authors: PETCH Alison
Publisher: Policy press 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84742-179-1
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB300/PET
This book highlights the common issues when experiencing transition as well as the dilemmas specific to situations. It explores what we know about how transition is experienced by young people leaving care, by those with learning disabilities and mental health problems, and young people seeking asylum.

Making Learning Happen - A Guide for Post-Compulsory Education
Authors: RACE Phil
Publisher: SAGE Publications 2005
ISBN: 1 4129 0709 8
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB137/RAC
This book is a valuable resource for postgraduate students, as well as a helpful tool for lecturers in higher education and post-16 teachers in secondary education. This book highlights the main factors for successful learning and how to address these factors in large-group teaching, small-group work and online working.

Constructing the Future - transforming career guidance
Authors: REID Hazel, BIMROSE Jenny
Publisher: Institute of Career Guidance 2006
ISBN: 0-903076-28-4
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB022/REI
A handbook discusses how career guidance is transforming and how effective guidance can transform clients’ futures. This book analyzes years of data to construct new understandings of career guidance.

Measuring Medical Professionalism
Authors: STERN David Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2006
ISBN: 978 0 19 517226 3
Library Reference Number: SOG/HC136/STE
This book offers a theory-to-practice text focussed on ways to evaluate professional behaviour. Topics include: assessment of moral reasoning, values, communication skills, critical incident reports, faculty observations, peer evaluations and the use of surveys.

Professions, Work and Careers
Authors: STRAUSS Anselm
Publisher: Transaction Publishers 2001
ISBN: 7658 0875 7
Library Reference Number: SOG/PB133/STR
A book directed at sociologists concerned with the development of theory and students in the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine. Strauss examines organisation, profession, work, socialization, occupation identity, social mobility and professional relationships., all in a social psychological context.

Rethinking Careers Education and Guidance - Theory, policy and practice
Authors: WATTS A G, LAW Bill, KILLEEN John, KIDD Jennifer M, HAWTHORN Ruth
Publisher: Routledge 1996
ISBN: 0-415-13975-9
Library Reference Number: SOG/HC015/WAT
A book designed to help practitioners to develop a broader and deeper intellectual base for their work. It is aimed particularly at students and reflective practitioners. It contains such topics as: career theory, social context of guidance, career planning, career work in higher education, staff development, experience based learning, and international perspectives.