Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Recl

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		Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Recl
		Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Recl

基本信息·出版社：Random House USA Inc
·页码：240 页
·出版日期：2001年02月
·ISBN：060980264X/9780609802649
·条形码：9780609802649
·版本：第1版
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：子从父业 - 家庭对职业规划的影响

内容简介 Book Description

This book explains how family expectations about careers and work are passed from generation to generation, revealing how these expectations affect roles, relationships, and values on the job and how readers can achieve their own personal goals and dreams. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

From Publishers Weekly

In this clear-sighted and sympathetic primer on achieving career satisfaction, Jacobsen argues that all children are given straightforward and subtle messages by their families about career choices they should make as adults. In many cases, mothers and fathers influence children to fulfill the parents' thwarted dreams rather than encourage them to decide for themselves. A clinical social worker who has presented workshops on this subject for college students and management professionals for the past seven years, Jacobsen aims her message at young adults who are making initial career choices, older adults who are unhappy in their work and looking for a change, and retirees who now have an opportunity to try something more in harmony with their inner yearnings. Drawing on the tenets of family systems therapy, she believes that finding genuine career satisfaction entails understanding one's family history and the dynamics that may have resulted in a poor original career choice. To that end, she provides a series of exercises designed to identify family influences, as well as a chapter that specifically addresses the subject of abusive parents. Once these family influences become clear, Jacobsen recommends further exercises to assist in discovering one's true self and the best ways to express it through one's life work. Agent, Felicia Eth.

From Library Journal

How does family background affect an individuals career path and/or job performance? Jacobsen, a clinical social worker and workshop leader, examines this question, defining hand-me-down dreams as inherited dreams, goals, values and beliefs from our families. She presents her analysis in five parts: how these dreams are passed down in families; how family members are connected emotionally and as a system; family values regarding the purpose of work, the meaning of success, and the importance of money; a workbook and checklist for self-analysis; and strategies for the future. The appendixes include a bibliography and a guide to professional support and counseling. Helpful case studies are presented throughout, and various family issues and problems are discussed, including sibling rivalry, self-esteem, gender roles, and child abuse. This thoughtful and innovative study is recommended for college students and young professionals at both academic and public libraries.Lucy T. Heckman, St. Johns Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY

Book Dimension
Height (mm) 203 Width (mm) 140
作者简介 Mary H. Jacobsen received her M.S.W. from Boston University's Graduate School of Social Work. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Arlington, Massachusetts, and has presented workshops on Hand-Me-Down Dreams for the past eight years.
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From Publishers Weekly
In this clear-sighted and sympathetic primer on achieving career satisfaction, Jacobsen argues that all children are given straightforward and subtle messages by their families about career choices they should make as adults. In many cases, mothers and fathers influence children to fulfill the parents' thwarted dreams rather than encourage them to decide for themselves. A clinical social worker who has presented workshops on this subject for college students and management professionals for the past seven years, Jacobsen aims her message at young adults who are making initial career choices, older adults who are unhappy in their work and looking for a change, and retirees who now have an opportunity to try something more in harmony with their inner yearnings. Drawing on the tenets of family systems therapy, she believes that finding genuine career satisfaction entails understanding one's family history and the dynamics that may have resulted in a poor original career choice. To that end, she provides a series of exercises designed to identify family influences, as well as a chapter that specifically addresses the subject of abusive parents. Once these family influences become clear, Jacobsen recommends further exercises to assist in discovering one's true self and the best ways to express it through one's life work. Agent, Felicia Eth.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
How does family background affect an individuals career path and/or job performance? Jacobsen, a clinical social worker and workshop leader, examines this question, defining hand-me-down dreams as inherited dreams, goals, values and beliefs from our families. She presents her analysis in five parts: how these dreams are passed down in families; how family members are connected emotionally and as a system; family values regarding the purpose of work, the meaning of success, and the importance of money; a workbook and checklist for self-analysis; and strategies for the future. The appendixes include a bibliography and a guide to professional support and counseling. Helpful case studies are presented throughout, and various family issues and problems are discussed, including sibling rivalry, self-esteem, gender roles, and child abuse. This thoughtful and innovative study is recommended for college students and young professionals at both academic and public libraries.Lucy T. Heckman, St. Johns Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
"Hand-Me-Down Dreams is an outstanding and pioneering book on an important and neglected subject."
--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., Author of The Dance of Anger --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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