Linda Hill – författare

`For those of you who wonder if the counselling approach is of much use for career guidance, this book should be informative. The importance of working with insight into client feelings is exemplified by insights into the need to address and work through feelings so that blocks to career interest and good decision-making can be overcome... The book outlines basic counselling skills and more complex ones and many straightforward exercises; ways of generating career options; career drivers and satisfiers; decision-making exercises; and guidelines for investigating careers... This text has made me more aware of the importance of thinking in terms of counselling and group counselling in the work I do relating to careers′ - Guidance Matters

Career counselling is often mistakenly described as giving people advice on finding the best career path. This fully revised and updated second edition of Career Counselling explains what career counselling actually is, why people seek it, and indicates the many contexts where it is used. It describes in detail the skills, tools and techniques of career counselling, useful to both professional career counsellors and those for whom career counselling is just part of their work.

This practical guide examines the issues typically brought to career counselling, and includes a completely new chapter on the role of career counselling within organisations. Other areas covered include:

othe dilemmas of independent and in-house career counsellors

oscreening and contracting

oways of facilitating decision-making and managing `blocks′

oself-management and continuing professional development.

Career Counselling, Second Edition stresses the importance of adopting a `whole person′ approach whilst maintaining a career focus. Illustrated throughout by case studies from the authors′ experience, the book draws on approaches ranging from the humanistic work of Carl Rogers to solution-focused counselling. The book contains an invaluable resources section and includes a brand new appendix containing photocopiable exercises which practitioners and their clients can use in conjunction with their counselling sessions.

Robert Nathan is Managing Director of Career Counselling Services, London.

Trading identities when they were kids was a lark. Doing it as adults will change their lives forever.Jillian Monroe is a movie star with secrets. Her life is falling apart and she's no longer able to hide it. Desperate to keep it together while she rehabs from a drug and alcohol habit, she and her business manager cajole her twin sister Jamie—younger by 13 minutes—into taking her place.All Jamie has to do is show up at a few events and smile for the paparazzi's cameras. How hard could that be? Jillian's manager assures the younger sister that it will only take a few weeks for the reborn Jillian to emerge to take back her career. Jamie, long tired of bailing her sister out of trouble, reluctantly agrees to the escapade with a promise of never, ever again.

When Jillian's rehab stint doesn’t end as expected, Jamie begins to fill in for her sister in other roles—both personal and professional. The attention, especially from Kris Dumas, quickly turns hotter than Jamie can handle.The author of such classics as Class Reunion and Never Say Never is back. Linda Hill returns with a twisting tale of passion and romance.