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A History of Career Counselling

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The present chapter describes the history of how the counselling profession has successfully met the challenge of social transitions in devising youth mentoring for agricultural communities, vocational guidance for industrial cities, and career development counselling for corporate societies. To remain relevant and useful in the twenty-first century, members of the profession are again reinventing its models and methods, this time concentrating on how to fit work into life, rather than fit life into work. The future of the profession rests on counsellors’ ability to help students and clients adapt to the challenges inherent in the new organisation of work in liquid societies.

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Savickas, M.L., Savickas, S. (2019). A History of Career Counselling. In: Athanasou, J.A., Perera, H.N. (eds) International Handbook of Career Guidance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25153-6_2

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