Connections between career development and mental health do exist. Career counseling can be a therapeutic intervention by providing dislocated, unhappy, maladjusted, or underemployed workers information, support, encouragement, and skills that increase competence and improve self-esteem. (SK)

Briefly chronicles selected major events and personalities that have stimulated and shaped career development practices in the 20th century. In its headings by decades, seeks to contextualize major political, social, economic, and scientific themes that have influenced the evolution of models of career behavior, career interventions, and the…

The authors outline the purpose and scope of the Penn State Vocational Development Study, and discuss the value of such longitudinal research in understanding career-related behavior and improving vocational guidance. (SK)

This article discusses the importance of collaboration among professional organizations, governmental entities, and counselors in behalf of career development. Examples of possible international and national collaborative initiatives and policy emphases are described. (Author)

This article examines the rise, definitions, and characteristics of careers education in England, contrasts it with American view of career education guidance, and draws implications for American education. (Author)

Changes in occupational structure, demographics, and social values are affecting the career development of young workers, reentry women, and older adults in Japan. Counseling must adjust to meet new needs, such as increased high school dropout and joblessness. (SK)

The authors identify and discuss the main themes from the discourse on the internationalization of educational and vocational guidance at the 2004 "Symposium on International Perspectives on Career Development," co sponsored by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance and the National Career Development Association.…

The purposes of this monograph are to: (1) examine the interrelationships of decision making and vocational development, (2) examine the current approaches to understanding decision-making, (3) identify the specific effects upon decision making and vocational development of different personal characteristics, and (4) suggest ways in which the…

Studied effects of secondary school characteristics on career behavior in young adults. Found significant differences in patterns of career development by curriculum but not by sex, in certainty by curriculum and sex, and in satisfaction by neither curriculum nor sex. Comments by Donald Super and authors' response included. (Author/RC)

Using both quantitative and qualitative research processes, identified and examined differences and similarities in career uncertainty and in levels of involvement in the career development process between declared and undeclared college students. Results suggest that declared students possess higher levels of certainty about their major and…

After noting the complexity involved in making career decisions and the need for young people and adults to have direct assess to career information, major discussion centers around the ingredients, or steps, in the decision making process, the importance of employability skills, and the role of cooperative work experience. (SH)

To identify conceptual elements and trends leading to career education so that assumptions which the term represents are clear to program developers and decision-makers, an analysis was made of available historical, philosophical, conceptual, and theoretical literature. The analysis offers substantiation that the antecedents of career education…

Employment-bound youth have largely been ignored in the literature on careers and on counseling and guidance. Divided into seven chapters, this book provides recommendations and specific suggestions for actions that counselors, administrators, and policy makers can adopt to respond to the challenge of providing for employment-bound youth. Chapter…

Knowledge about the structure and availability of work, and the ways people prepare for it, are important issues for both career specialists and policymakers. This paper begins with a discussion of the concepts of work, employability, and employment. Work is described as a complex concept that means different things to different people, and…