Although self-employment is a growing career option in Canada, many career practitioners find it personally difficult to make the leap from being an employee to starting a business. E-mail surveys completed by 13 self-employed career practitioners and counselors revealed six key factors that contributed to their business success: vision and…

Proposes three ways in which counselors may be seen as contributing to client resistance: counselor wants client to be and to behave in counselor-imposed ways; counselor actively constructs complementary role that client is to fulfill; and counselor maintains entrenched belief in truth of "client resistance." Suggests strategies to help…

This document, written for counselors and educators, describes a computer-assisted program for career counselors. The ten tasks of a counselor-client goal setting process formulated by Philip Patsula and incorporated into this program are presented. The areas of experiencing a positive atmosphere, elaborating on constraints, and evaluating…