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Counseling and the Role of Personality and Intelligence

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International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence

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It is our intent in this chapter to highlight certain issues pertaining to the areas of personality, intelligence, and environment that are currently of interest in the field of counseling. Vocational development serves as an example of a central counseling focus that illustrates concerns that apply to many counseling endeavors. In particular this discussion centers around the experiences of young individuals as they make their way into the vocational context. Recent studies have demonstrated that this transition period is a time of great flux in an individual’s life, and that a successful passage has profound implications for well-being (Amundson, Borgen, & Tench, 1993; Borgen, Amundson, & Tench, 1993; Furnham, 1985; Tiggeman & Winefield, 1984; Warr, Jackson, and Banks, 1982).

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  1. Department of Counselling Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Norman E. Amundson, William A. Borgen & Elizabeth Tench

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Amundson, N.E., Borgen, W.A., Tench, E. (1995). Counseling and the Role of Personality and Intelligence. In: Saklofske, D.H., Zeidner, M. (eds) International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5571-8_27

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