Active Engagement received the Best Book Award by the Canadian Counselling Association. In this third edition Dr. Amundson adds new theoretical and practical information about career processes: The Need for a Backswing; ‘Being’ and ‘Doing’; Chaos Theory; Metaphoric Communication Skills; Contextual Based Interviewing; Circle of Strengths; Career Flow; Workplace Attractors; An Expanded Intelligent Career Approach; Applying an Entrepreneurial Perspective; Career as a Pathway/Journey; Kite Flying; and More About Stories.

In addition to this third edition of Active Engagement, we are proud to introduce our first series of career counselling companion videos, entitled Active Engagement In Action. Designed to accompany and enhance the material found in the book, the DVDs contain real counselling sessions with Dr. Amundson, along with introductions, insight and ongoing explanation words to contribute to the learning experience. This exciting addition to Active Engagement is also available from our bookstore, and video clips are now viewable online here.

“Dr. Amundson is arguably our most creative thinker regarding career interventions today. This 3rd edition of Active Engagement reflects this creativity and provides us with exactly the sort of innovative strategies needed to address today’s career challenges.”

Spencer Niles, Professor and Department Head
Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services, The Pennsylvania State University

“Dr. Amundson has provided career counsellors with a down-to-earth and practical handbook, based on firm theoretical ground. The active use of creativity, metaphors and even poems runs through this book. Active Engagement captures the spirit, the inner light of counselling, without leaving the practitioner in the dark.”

Peter Plant, Professor
Royal Danish School of Educational Studies, Denmark

“Active Engagement challenges traditional career counselling practice. It offers fresh insights and diverse, dynamic and ‘unconventional’ approaches. This is a truly innovative book; it is energizing, it is freeing and moves us outside the ‘box’ of traditional practice.”

Lynne Bezanson, Co-Executive Director
Canadian Career Development Foundation

“This book is excellent. It is well-written and a good read. Clearly, through the author’s creativity, he has pushed out the envelope on what models and techniques are appropriate and he has pierced a lot of the rigidity in the field.”

Edwin L. Herr, Distinguished Professor of Education
The Pennsylvania State University

Click here to download a PDF file containing the Active Engagement book, DVD series, and the rest of our Publishing Catalogue, as well as a printable Order Form. Please fill out the form with your order and send it to us using any one of the methods detailed here.

The second edition is also available in Dutch, Swedish and Danish translations.
Paperback, 358 pages | ISBN 978-0-9684345-8-1 | $40.00