CONTENTS:-
I. The nature of work:
1. Why people work.
2. Work and the way of life.
3. The varieties of work.
4. Occupational life spans and output curves.
II. The course and cycle of the working life:
5. Career patterns and life stages.
6. Adolescence as exploration: developing a self concept.
7. The transition from school to work: reality testing.
8. The floundering or trial process: attempting to implement a self concept.
9. The period of establishment: the self concept modified and implemented.
10. The maintenance stage: preserving or being nagged by the self concept.
11. The years of decline: adjustment to a new self.
III. The dynamics of vocational development:
12. The factorial approach to vocational development.
13. Vocational development.
14. Aptitudes in vocational development.
15. Interests and vocational development.
16. Personality and vocational development.
17. The family in vocational development.
18. Economic factors in vocational development.
19. Disabilities in vocational development.
20. Chance: the unknown or uncontrolled factors.
21. The synthesizing process.
IV. Implications and applications:
22. Vocational adjustment and general adjustment.
23. Methods and techniques of vocational psychology and guidance.
