Connections Between Spirit and Work in Career Development: New Approaches and Practical Perspectives [Hardcover]

Deborah P. Bloch (Editor), Lee J. Richmond (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0891061053 | ISBN-13: 978-0891061052 | Edition: 1st

Eleven selections that offer practical guidance to career development professionals and their clients.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Equips readers with new ideas to incorporate into their careers work. -- Australia Journal for Career Development

Important contribution here is the use of real-world examples. -- Career Planning & Adult Development Journal, Winter 1997-98

Offers valuable, concrete suggestions. Illuminating examples. -- HR Magazine, December 1997

Overall intelligently written and provocative. Usefully attempts to unravel and deal with nonmaterial fulfillment in work and life. -- Choice, January 1998

From the Inside Flap

With increasing urgency, people are seeking more personally satisfying nd meaningful work lives. This volume responds by offering career development professionals new ways to address this yearning by drawing on the research and wisdom of many different approaches, from psychology to systems theory to quantum mechanics.

Covering both theoretical issues and the pressing everyday concerns of the individual employee, the eleven chapters in this book explore the vital human desire to find meaning and integration in work. Presenting positive strategies for addressing and balancing the needs of individuals, their families, and the workplace, CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SPIRIT & WORK IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT offers professionals a set of practical tools for helping clients achieve their goals.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing; 1st edition (August 19, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891061053
• ISBN-13: 978-0891061052
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #697,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Thomas-Paul Demkovich, (1954- ) is a Dominican Friar who has written on Spirituality, Theology & Meister Eckhart in journals and books. He holds a Ph.D. and the Pontifical Doctorate, both from the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven. From 1991 to 1996 he taught at the Dominican Studium in St. Louis, MO before becoming the Founding Director of the Dominican Ecclesial Institute (Albuquerque, NM). In 2009 he was named the Gerald Vann Visiting Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford. In his most recent work, The Death of Magister Aycardus, he captures the history of the period and the reader's imagination to create interest and suspense. He is the author of Introducing Meister Eckhart (Ligouri, 2006) and A Soul-Centered Life (Liturgical Press, 2010).