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Improving Career Wellbeing for First-Time Expectant Mothers
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Chen, Charles P.; Morris, Lindsay – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2020
Within the diverse population of working women, those who experience pregnancy for the first time may face some particular challenges when it comes to their career development needs and issues. These include discrimination in the workplace, responding to social expectations and pressures, negotiating life roles, and evolving personal identities.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Pregnancy, Career Development, Career Counseling
Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Parent Career Behavior Checklist in a Sample of Non-Engaged Youth and Their Parents
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To, Siu-ming; Wong, Cheong-wing Victor; Yan, Ming-wai; Su, Xuebing – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2020
Background: Understanding the parental influences on the career development of non-engaged youth (NEY) has been an underdeveloped research area. Furthermore, psychometrically valid and reliable tools for assessing how parents of NEY support their children in dealing with career issues remain largely unavailable in academia. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Foreign Countries
Helping Adolescents with Career Development: The Active Role of Parents.
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Young, Richard A. – Career Development Quarterly, 1994
Offers suggestions for counselors and parents regarding active role parents can play in career development of their adolescent children. Three dimensions of the active role of parents are discussed: intentionality and meaning attributed to career influence by parents and adolescents, use of narrative, and sources of conflict. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Development, Children
More than a Job: Helping Your Teenagers Find Success
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Lapan, Richard T. – National Career Development Association, 2008
The teen years are an excellent time to start thinking about a potential career and to investigate all of the different opportunities available. Motivating adolescents to become actively engaged in their own career development is not always easy, but this book makes it fun. Written for parents, school counselors, and counselors in private practice…
Descriptors: Career Development, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Motivation Techniques
Parents as Career Development Facilitators: An Untapped Resource for the Counselor.
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Birk, Janice M.; Blimline, Carol A. – School Counselor, 1984
Polled parents (N=382) and their children (N=323) about the role parents play in children's career development. Results indicated that in their role as primary career development facilitators, parents are frequently reinforcing stereotypic career choices. (LLL)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development, Elementary Education
The Family-Career Connection. Overview. ERIC Digest No. 52.
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Miller, Juliet V. – 1986
Recent changes in the family structure and in the work setting are forcing many families to reexamine and redefine the family-career relationship. Until recently, most research on career and family patterns has focused on traditional sex roles. Although competition between career and family roles has caused pain in many families, recent research…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Dual Career Family
Family Involvement in Career Development. A Bibliography.
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Center for Instructional Development and Services. – 1990
This bibliography draws together the best sources of information currently available concerning the parental role in children's career development and family involvement in career development programs in the schools. Twenty-nine citations from ERIC and other databases include administrative materials, information analyses, journal articles,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Development