What-you-should-be-when-you-grow-up need not and should not be planned in advance. Instead career counselors should teach their clients the importance of engaging in a variety of interesting and beneficial activities, ascertaining their reactions, remaining alert to alternative opportunities, and learning skills for succeeding in each new…

Stanford's experience using electronic discussion groups for counselor training showed that depth and intensity of self-disclosure gradually increased and instructor time was not reduced. A computer-assisted psychoeducational program on eating disorders overestimated student computer knowledge and skill and failed to allow user privacy. (SK)

Calls career and personal counseling inextricably intertwined. Notes that career problems have strong emotional component. Suggests interpreting career indecision and procrastination as zeteophobia, fear of career exploration. Contends that trait and factor theory pictures career counseling as unrealistically simplistic. Suggests training all…

The author discusses the assets and weaknesses of a social learning theory of career selection. (HLM)

The Virtual Job Experience (VJE) is an interactive computer job simulation that allows learners to sample an occupation's actual tasks realistically. The effect of the VJE experience on students' career perceptions, explorations, and aspirations was examined in a study of 94 high school students enrolled in 3 summer school classes. Students were…