A decision-making model applied to career counseling

Christine Olson and Ellen McWhirter are doctoral students and John J. Horan is Professor and Director, Counseling Psychology Program, Arizona State University, 401 Payne Hall, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0611.     

Career education and career guidance: Strategies for implementing career development

Dedmond is Supervisor, Career Education and Career Guidance, Virginia Department of Education.     

Career counselor education: A postal career that delivers

Lee J. Richmond is a professor, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland 21210. This article was written in association with Linda K. Kemp, Career Development Specialist, U.S. Postal Services.     

浅论职业指导与推动高质量就业的关系

职业指导是推动实现高质量就业的重要手段.随着职业指导内涵的不断演变,高校职业指导的不可替代性日趋凸显,主要体现在：职业指导对大学生就业观、职业认知的指导作用;对人才培养过程的影响作用;对大学生职业定位的指导作用等.为了充分发挥职业指导在高校更高质量就业工作中的重要作用,高校应注重专兼职相结合的职业指导队伍建设,将职业指导纳入大学人才培养的全过程,将专门化的职业指导活动与日常职业指导有机结合,同时不断加强机制建设.     

Values,intelligence and client behavior in career counseling: A field study

We examine relations of values and intelligence to overt behavior in a field study of clients in career counseling (N=365). Eleven counselors reported their clients' independence, activity and insightfulness behaviors. As predicted, both values and intelligence correlated substantially with particular behaviors. Activity and independence correlated positively with self-direction and achievement values and negatively with conformity and tradition values. Independence correlated positively with maturity values as well. Insightfulness correlated positively with maturity values and negatively with conformity and tradition values. All three behaviors correlated positively with intelligence. Values predicted behavior over and above intelligence, but intelligence added to the prediction by values only for the clients of some counselors. Implications of the findings for research on values and behavior are discussed.     

Career plateauing: Implications for career development specialists

Conclusion While career plateauing is a major challenge facing contemporary organizations, possible solutions are available. The career development specialist possessing a variety of skills geared toward both proaction and reaction can be instrumental in designing interventions which minimize the negative impact of plateauing. While career plateauing can be a devastating problem for many high achieving, self-sacrificing baby boomers, for others it may present an opportunity to escape the internal pressures for success. Much of what happens to a plateaued employee is determined by the resources possessed by the employee as well as the organization's response to the employee. The activities of the career development specialist constitute much of what is considered the organization's response. A career plateau may mark the beginning of a period characterized by frustration and depression or it may present the opportunity for a new challenge or reappraisal of life direction and goals.     

Career counseling for gifted girls and women

Barbara A. Kerr is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, N346 Lindquist, Iowa City, IA 52242. Address requests for reprints to the author.     

Effect of individual career counseling on psychological distress: impact of career intervention components,working alliance,and career indecision

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - This study examined the impact of intervention components, working alliance, and career indecision on the change in psychological...     

A psychoeducational model of counseling

This paper reviews the salient features of the Mega Interactive Model of Instruction (MIMI) MIMI has been proposed as the basis for a conceptual framework with which to study and interpret instructional/counseling interactions. The relevance of this model for instructional and counseling research are discussed.     

Online career counseling success: the role of hardiness and psychological capital

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance - Online career counseling is an important new horizon for vocational guidance. The present study investigates the role of online...