Career Development Interventions for Social Justice

Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts

Edited by Margo A. Jackson; Allyson K. Regis and Kourtney Bennett

Career development interventions can serve as one means to constructively address the problems of inequitable access to educational and occupational options and achievement that promote health and well-being across the lifespan. Career Development Interventions for Social Justice: Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts offers practical examples of career development interventions that may be adapted to constructively address social justice needs at various points across the lifespan (ranging from elementary school ages to older adults) in educational, community, and employment contexts.

Tailored to the needs and context of a specific underserved group of individuals, each intervention integrates relevant career development theory, research, ethical considerations, elements of sound program design and evaluation, and professional competencies for best practices in multicultural career counseling and social justice advocacy. Unique to this book are the contributions of authors, including practicing professional counselors and psychologists, who share their personal reflections of self-awareness from privileged and marginalized identities regarding potential biases and resources of relevance to their chapter’s intervention. In the process of designing and providing career development services for individuals from marginalized groups, it is imperative for counselors to continually reflect on and consult about their own biases and resources for empathic understanding and effectiveness with those whom we serve.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 336 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-5381-2488-8 • Hardback • January 2019 • $132.00 • (£102.00)

978-1-5381-2489-5 • Paperback • January 2019 • $53.00 • (£41.00)

978-1-5381-2490-1 • eBook • January 2019 • $47.50 • (£37.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Research, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling

Career Development Interventions for Social Justice

Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts

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Summary

Career development interventions can serve as one means to constructively address the problems of inequitable access to educational and occupational options and achievement that promote health and well-being across the lifespan. Career Development Interventions for Social Justice: Addressing Needs across the Lifespan in Educational, Community, and Employment Contexts offers practical examples of career development interventions that may be adapted to constructively address social justice needs at various points across the lifespan (ranging from elementary school ages to older adults) in educational, community, and employment contexts.

Tailored to the needs and context of a specific underserved group of individuals, each intervention integrates relevant career development theory, research, ethical considerations, elements of sound program design and evaluation, and professional competencies for best practices in multicultural career counseling and social justice advocacy. Unique to this book are the contributions of authors, including practicing professional counselors and psychologists, who share their personal reflections of self-awareness from privileged and marginalized identities regarding potential biases and resources of relevance to their chapter’s intervention. In the process of designing and providing career development services for individuals from marginalized groups, it is imperative for counselors to continually reflect on and consult about their own biases and resources for empathic understanding and effectiveness with those whom we serve.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 336 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-5381-2488-8 • Hardback • January 2019 • $132.00 • (£102.00)

978-1-5381-2489-5 • Paperback • January 2019 • $53.00 • (£41.00)

978-1-5381-2490-1 • eBook • January 2019 • $47.50 • (£37.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Research, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling

Author

Margo A. Jackson, PhD, is a professor of counseling psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. Her scholarship and mentoring are grounded in values of social justice awareness and advocacy; multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives; and scientist-practitioner approaches to training and practice that are holistic, strength-based, developmental, and focused on facilitating healthy human relationships. Her research, teaching, and service focus on methods to assess and constructively address hidden biases and strengths of counselors, psychologists, educators, and other leaders; career development across the life span; and ethical training and supervision in multicultural counseling and psychology.

Allyson K. Regis, PhD is a licensed psychologist who received her doctorate in counseling psychology from Fordham University. Dr. Regis has worked in a variety of clinical settings and particularly enjoys working with college students who have difficulty adjusting to/navigating the college environment. Her research, teaching, and leadership experiences have focused on multicultural considerations in clinical work, strength-based approaches to wellness, and career development theory.

Kourtney Bennett, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at the Loyola University Maryland Counseling Center. She completed her doctoral studies at Fordham University’s APA accredited Counseling Psychology Program. Her clinical experiences include supporting youth and adults at community mental health, college counseling, and career development center settings. Her research and service interests include multicultural and intersectional identity, vocational development among adolescents and emerging adults, and social justice and advocacy.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Educational Contexts with Underserved Children (Elementary School Ages)

1 Antibias Career Development for Evolving Identities in Elementary School Children

Victoria Broems and Margo A. Jackson

Part II: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Educational Contexts with Underserved Young Adolescents (Middle School Ages)

2 Identifying Strength-Based Transferable Skills from Personal Accomplishment Narratives to Expand Educational/Career Pathways with Marginalized Youth 25

Margo A. Jackson, Gary L. Dillon Jr., Kourtney Bennett, and Allyson K. Regis

Part III: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Educational Contexts with Underserved Adolescents (High School Ages)

3 Crossing Sociopolitical Barriers: Promoting Critical Consciousness and Career Development among High School Students

Kourtney Bennett

4 A Program to Promote Career Development and Counseling Services in High Schools with LGBT Students

Jill Huang

5 The Step-Up Career Development Program with Unaccompanied Latinx Refugee Youth in Resettlement High Schools

Elizabeth A. Quiñones

Part IV: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Educational Contexts with Underserved College Students

6 Gen1 Quick-Start: Academic Major and Career Decision-Making Workshop for Latina First-Generation Freshmen

Ariel Sorensen

Part V: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Educational Contexts in Diversity Training with Colleges and Universities

7 Coming to Understand and More Constructively Respond to Racial Microaggressions

Margo A. Jackson

Part VI: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Community and Employment Contexts with Underserved Adolescents

8 Girls in Action: Career Development with Juvenile Justice–Involved Adolescent Girls

Lauren Ann Sonnabend

Part VII: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice Needs in Community and Employment Contexts with Underserved Adults

9 Addressing Employment Uncertainty of Rural Working Adults: A Telemental Health Community Workshop

Shannon M. O’Neill

10 Life-Design Group Course for Laid-Off Workers

Kathleen Hahn

11 Empowering Battered Women with BRAVER

Adia Tucker

12 Career Progression Workshop for the Internationally Educated

Fanny Kuang

13 Gradually Reintegrating Ex-Offenders into the Workforce

Allyson K. Regis and Gary L. Dillon Jr.

14 Developing Managers’ Skills for Countering Racial Color Blindness and Constructively Addressing Racial Microaggressions in the Workplace

Christine S. Romano

Part VIII: Career Development Interventions for Social Justice

Needs in Community and Employment Contexts with Underserved Older Adults

15 Booming through Retirement: Optimizing Psychosocial Resources for Retirement Success in Baby Boomers

Ashley E. Selkirk

Appendix A: Career Counseling Competencies

Appendix B: Advocacy Competencies

Index

About the Editors and Contributors

Reviews

This text rises to the challenge of providing students and practitioners with resources that infuse theoretically informed career development practices with social justice values. Outstanding features include the careful attention to intersectionality and diversity, interventions for each stage of the lifespan, and the authors’ personal reflections on how context and identity have shaped their professional development and career practices.
— Ellen Hawley McWhirter, Ph.D., Ann Swindells Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Oregon

Although there has been significant discussion in the career counseling literature about the need to adapt career interventions for marginalized populations, there have been few examples of how to do this. This book meets that need by providing clear instructions on effective interventions to assist specific groups across the lifespan. Career counselors need this book!
— Susan C. Whiston, professor emeritus, Indiana University