This book provides cutting edge theory, research and practice for understanding and fostering career exploration and development during childhood, across a wide spectrum of international settings. Divided into five critical sections, each chapter includes relevant research as well as the practical application of concepts, issues and strategies for career interventions with children. 'Career development is a lifespan process, but to date the early part of the lifespan has received little attention. This book represents a much-needed impetus to change this. Watson and McMahon have assembled a diverse group of scholars to document how childhood experiences serve as precursors of future occupational roles and identities and to review the functions of theory, research, and practice in understanding and facilitating the underlying processes. This book will expand the scope of the field and should be required reading for students of career development and career counselling.' Fred W. Vondracek, Professor Emeritus of Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University