1st Edition

Counselling and Career Guidance in Asia Developments, Challenges and Opportunities

Edited By Anuradha J. Bakshi, Mantak Yuen Copyright 2024
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

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. This book addresses multiple gaps in the counselling and career guidance literatures: it covers Eastern contexts and includes a focus on the... Read more

Introduction: Counselling and career guidance in Asia

Anuradha J. Bakshi and Mantak Yuen

 

Part 1: Counselling

 

1. Using a Delphi technique to build a competency framework for full-time counselling teachers in Taiwan

Pei-Shan Lee and Yu-Hsien Sung

 

2. Elementary school teachers’ satisfaction with their collaboration with counsellors: effects of teacher attitudes, teacher expectations and counsellor professional traits

S. -F. Tu and Y. -H. Chan

 

3. The experiences of school counsellors in Hong Kong: implications for policy innovation

Mark G. Harrison, Fu Wai and Jacky K. F. Cheung

 

4. An evaluation of a pilot counselling model in Hong Kong for individuals with mild-to-moderate psychological issues

Paul W. C. Wong, Shimin Zhu, Tim M. H. Li, Eppie H. Y. Wan, Hallie H. L. Chan, Vanessa S. W. Yu, Kelly S. K. Fung and Samson Tse

 

5. Reflective practice through clinical supervision: implications for professional and organisational sustainability

Dawn Koh, Geoff McNulty and Hwee Leng Toh-Heng

 

Part 2: Career Guidance

 

6. Career guidance and counselling: the nature and types of career-related teacher social support in Hong Kong secondary schools

Lawrence P.W. Wong, Mantak Yuen and Gaowei Chen

 

7. A comparison between flipped and lecture-based course delivery of a career development programme for Chinese undergraduates

Leili Jin, Yang Gao, Tongtong Liu, Peter A. Creed and Michelle Hood

 

8. Employer attributes attracting engineering graduate job aspirants: insights from the Aspire model

Rajesh Raghunathan and Reena Murali

 

9. Characteristics of longer-term versus transitional NEETs in Hong Kong: implications for career support services

Xuebing Su, Victor Wong and Siu-ming To

 

10. Intersectionality of rural community, geography and gender in the careers of young adults

Anuradha J. Bakshi and Brenda J. Fernando

 

11. Career development in Macao: a perspective representing small states and territories

Elvo K. L. Sou, Mantak Yuen and Gaowei Chen

 

12. The place of culture in the training of career guidance educators

Gulnaz Zahid and Tom Staunton

 

13. The ideal partner: gender-occupation congruence and incongruence

Jingjing Song and Yanfen Liu

Biography

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).