This practiced-based handbook describes postmodern career counseling models and methods designed to meet clients' diverse needs in today's challenging work environment. Readers will gain a solid understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of postmodern career counseling and learn practical approaches to counseling clients of various ages and backgrounds on occupational choice and other issues, such as coping with developmental tasks, career transitions, and work traumas. Drawing directly from their experiences with clients, career counseling experts link theory to practice in 17 application chapters that demonstrate the process of postmodern career assessment and intervention embedded in culture and context. Multicultural case vignettes and a "Practical Application Guide" in each of these chapters facilitate classroom learning and discussion. Contents include: Introduction: (1) Postmodern Career Counseling: A New Perspective for the 21st Century (Louis A. Busacca and Mark C. Rehfuss); Part I: Perspectives: (2) Career Counseling in Postmodern Times: Emergence and Narrative Conceptions (Louis A. Busacca); (3) The Postmodern Impulse and Career Counselor Preparation (Garrett J. McAuliffe and Judy Emmett); Part II: Principles: (4) Multicultural Career Counseling: Limitations of Traditional Career Theory and Scope of Training (Kathy M. Evans and Viki P. Kelchner); (5) Culture and Context in Constructionist Approaches to Career Counseling (Graham B. Stead and Brittan L. Davis); (6) Postmodern Career Assessment: Advantages and Considerations (Christopher Wood and Zachary Scully); Part III: Procedures: Social Constructionist, Constructivist, and Narrative Models: (7) Using the "My Career Story Workbook" With an African American High School Student (Mark C. Rehfuss); (8) Using My Career Chapter With a Malaysian Engineer to Write and Tell a Career Story (Peter McIlveen); (9) Constructing a Course: Constructivist Group Career Counseling With Low-Income, First-Generation College Students (Susan R. Barclay); (10) Early Recollections With a Paroled African American Male: A Career-Focused Group Approach (Kevin B. Stoltz); (11) The Storied Approach to Career Co-Construction With an Older Female Client (Pamelia E. Brott); (12) Using the Genogram for Career Assessment and Intervention With an Economically Disadvantaged Client (Donna M. Gibson and Julia V. Taylor); (13) Using Life Role Analysis for Career Assessment and Intervention With a Transgender Client (Varunee Faii Sangganjanavanich and Jessica A. Headley); (14) Using Personal Construct Psychology: Constructing a Career With an Asian American Client (Jennifer M. Taylor); (15) Tools to Connect: Using Career Card Sorts With a Latina Client (Cassandra A. Storlie and Janice A. Byrd); (16) Possible Selves Mapping With a Mexican American Prospective First-Generation College Student (Rebecca E. Michel); (17) The Life Design Genogram: Self-Construction With an Italian Female Transitioning to the World of Work (Annamaria Di Fabio); Variants of Social Constructionist, Constructivist, and Narrative Models: (18) Relational Cultural Career Assessment: The Case of an Indian Immigrant First-Year College Student (Sneha Pitre and Donna Schultheiss); (19) Solution-Focused Career Counseling With a Male Military Veteran (Seth C. W. Hayden and Mark B. Scholl); (20) Using the One Life Tools Narrative Framework: From Clarification to Intentional Exploration With an East Asian Female (Mark Franklin and Rich Feller); Systemic and Integrative Models: (21) From the Systems Theory Framework to My System of Career Influences: Integrating Theory and Practice With a Black South African Male (Mary McMahon, Wendy Patton, and Mark Watson); (22) Action Theory of Career Assessment for Clients With Chronic Illness and Disability (Tina Anctil); (23) Using Chaos Theory of Careers as a Counseling Framework With a Female African American College Student (Delila Lashelle Owens) and Conclusion: (24) Postmodern Principles and Teaching Considerations for 21st-Century Career Counseling (Louis A. Busacca and Mark C. Rehfuss) [Foreword by Mark Pope.]