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The clinical practice of career assessment: Interests, abilities, and personality.

DOI: 10.1037/10091-000

Publisher: American Psychological Association - American Psychological Association

Aug 31, 2004

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Introduction.

Lowman, Rodney L.

Pages: 1 –14

This introduction presents a composite case of a 33-yr-old woman who was dissatisfied with her career to introduce the career assessor to three major domains regarded to be centrally important in conducting competent career assessments: vocational interests, human abilities, and occupationally...
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The clinical assessment of vocational interests.

Lowman, Rodney L.

Pages: 15 –49

Occupational interests are well-established individual difference variables that are important in career assessment. The career assessor needs to be familiar both with the structured theories of interest and with the practical realities of interest measurement. The assessor must also exercise...
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Abilities.

Lowman, Rodney L.

Pages: 51 –131

In this chapter I discuss a number of basic human abilities that are important for the career assessor to understand conceptually and to know how to measure. For convenience of discussion, I present abilities in an order that roughly corresponds to J. Holland's structure of vocational interests...
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Measuring personal characteristics.

Lowman, Rodney L.

Pages: 133 –176

The integrative model of career assessment suggests a complex view of personality assessment and asserts that personality measures must have demonstrated job and career relevance before they are used in clinical practice. The results of personality evaluations should be considered in relation to...
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Integrating interest, ability, and personality data.

Lowman, Rodney L.

Pages: 177 –219

In this chapter I discuss methods for combining complex psychological assessment data to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the assessee. This difficult clinical task requires careful analysis of diverse data in order to develop a comprehensive career portrait of the assessee and capture the...
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Client feedback and report preparation.

Lowman, Rodney L.

Pages: 221 –260

The issues I discuss in this chapter refer both to the oral feedback on career assessment reviewed with the client at the time of the clinical assessment and the written report that, if properly prepared, will serve as a lifetime reference document on an individual's career concerns. As a general...

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