Review of Changing your work

Abstract

Reviews the book, Changing your work by J. Gustav White (1946). This book was written to help meet the needs of the large numbers of former service men and women, war industry workers, and others who are currently changing their jobs and occupations. It is directed to the person making vocational adjustments rather than to professional counselors, but has some value to the latter as an illustration of the approach used by one of considerable experience. The inspirational tone will annoy some readers, especially the professionally trained. But the psychologist with some perspective will probably recognize that, in a world in which much counseling needs to take people pretty much as they are and help them to become somewhat more effective rather than perfectly adjusted, the inspirational approach is often not without value. The role of the trained counselor is, despite the list of tests, well emphasized. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)