Book Review of The Self-Directed Search and Related Holland Career Materials: A Practitioner's Guide
✍ Scribed by Camille Consolvo
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 405 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-0035
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✦ Synopsis
Counselors must often determine how to use diagnostic and assessment instruments to assist clients with career issues. The Self-Directed Search and Related HoUand Career Materials: A Practitioner's Guide by Robert C. Reardon and Janet G. Lenz educates and encourages practitioners about how to accurately interpret Self-Directed Search (SDS) results; how to make the most efficient use of the diagnostic tools in the SDS results, as well as other Holland-based materials; and how to intervene effectively with a particular client. This easy to read, understandable. and practical book is a comprehensive text that examines Holland's theory and typology of people and environments (Realistic. Investigative. Artistic, Social, Enterprising. and Conventional; RIASEC). the application of this theory to practice. and the scholarly research resulting from Holland's theory and its assessment tools. Reardon and Lenz view the SDS (the Assessment booklet. the Occupations Finder. and the You and Your Career Booklet) as a career guidance diagnostic and intervention tool. The text instructs the practitioner about how to work holistically with a client's career decision-making process.
The authors provide many good examples of applying the Holland assessment materials to a variety of client situations. They follow up the applications with practical ideas, theories, and suggestions about how to assist clients in their career development. One of the