The Complete Guide To Outplacement Counseling

Recognized by business managers as a useful and practical tool to assist them in responding to a set of complex business challenges, the need for outplacement counseling - the process of assisting employees who have lost their jobs to develop effective career plans and to find new employment - has grown dramatically during the past two decades. Given this rapid expansion of the field, assembling, organizing, and clarifying the body of knowledge and information available about outplacement has become critically important. The first comprehensive effort in the field, this book presents authoritative, up-to-date information on an exhaustive range of outplacement topics. A psychologist and experienced outplacement practitioner, the author has recently been chosen as one of the charter fellows of the Outplacement Institute, the sole certifying organization for outplacement practitioners.

Of value to all those interested in the field including current and future practitioners as well as human resources professionals, this volume contains essential information for candidates receiving outplacement services, counseling students, and researchers involved in the study of counseling in business and industry. With such a broad audience in mind, it contains a wide range of information--counseling theory and practical suggestions geared expressly to the needs of practitioners, descriptive material on all topics, and brief case histories of actual outplacement candidates. Written in non-technical language, the volume brings to life the flavor of outplacement practice.

This unique volume covers topics not addressed elsewhere in the current outplacement literature including:

• the psychological barriers to a successful job search
• the behavioral and counseling implications of the outplacement setting
• the theoretical basis of outplacement counseling
• the relation between outplacement and psychotherapy
• the professional development opportunities for outplacement practitioners
• the supervision of outplacement practitioners
• the cross-cultural issues to be considered in outplacement
• the relation of outplacement to other career development professionals, and

• the marketing of outplacement services Also of importance, the appendices offer data not previously disseminated to the general public including:

• competencies standards for OPC practitioners as established by the International Association of Outplacement Professionals (IAOP)
• standards of ethical practice for outplacement professionals as established by the IAOP, and
• listings of information resources for OPC practitioners and candidates featuring a section on computer-based sources for conducting career-related research

Autorentext

Alan J. Pickman

Zusammenfassung
These books grew out of the perception that a number of important conceptual and theoretical advances in research on small group behavior had developed in recent years, but were scattered in rather fragmentary fashion across a diverse literature. Thus, it seemed useful to encourage the formulation of summary accounts. A conference was held in Hamburg with the aim of not only encouraging such developments, but also encouraging the integration of theoretical approaches where possible. These two volumes are the result. Current research on small groups falls roughly into two moderately broad categories, and this classification is reflected in the two books. Volume I addresses theoretical problems associated with the consensual action of task-oriented small groups, whereas Volume II focuses on interpersonal relations and social processes within such groups. The two volumes differ somewhat in that the conceptual work of Volume I tends to address rather strictly defined problems of consensual action, some approaches tending to the axiomatic, whereas the conceptual work described in Volume II is generally less formal and rather general in focus. However, both volumes represent current conceptual work in small group research and can claim to have achieved the original purpose of up-to-date conceptual summaries of progress on new theoretical work.

Inhalt

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Consulting to Organizations. Establishing the Counseling Relationship. Assessment in Outplacement Counseling. Barriers to Successful Job Search. Group Services. Physical, Behavioral and Counseling Implications of the Outplacement Setting. Toward a Theory of Outplacement Counseling. Common Patterns of Counselor-Client Interaction. Is Outplacement Ever Therapy? Background Qualifications. Professional Development. Supervision. Cross-Cultural Issues. Women and Outplacement. Family Issues. International Issues. Ethics. Relation of Outplacement to Other Career Development Professionals. Marketing Outplacement Services. Future of Outplacement. Appendices: Competencies Standards for Outplacement Practitioners as Established by the IAOP (1992). Standards of Ethical Practice for Outplacement Professionals Established by the IAOP (1993). Resources for Outplacement Practitioners.