The definitive work on social and emotional learning (SEL) research and practice is now in an extensively revised second edition, featuring all-new and thoroughly updated chapters. The world's leading SEL scholars describe state-of-the-art interventions that build students' competencies for managing emotions, showing empathy for others, forming…

Just because a school has adopted a social and emotional learning (SEL) program does not mean it will work. This book explores the conditions needed to implement, strengthen, and sustain effective SEL, and identifies paths that schools, districts, and states have taken to create those conditions. Major themes include equity of access to…

The 16 conference papers in this collection describe various ways in which counselling is used in distance education in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Zambia. Following an introduction by Alan Tait, the following papers are presented: (1) "Counselling in the Open University of the…

This paper sets out career-related stories of people and their struggle to make sense of a life through work. They show that career management is not primarily a matching process but, for most, the making of a life the best way one can. The nine stories from five continents have these focuses: a feeling for a career; a career is other people or…

Thirteen essays discuss educational and vocational guidance for students and adults. The topics discussed include the content of guidance programs, counselor education and training, the use of psychological testing, theories of vocational counseling, and more. The annotated bibliography provides 370 citations with English annotations. (CLB)