In this article the authors identify four conceptions of career education. They then present a conceptual framework for career development programs which has grown out of programmatic research that the authors have carried out over the past five years. (Author)

This article's focus on the rehabilitation future highlights past, present and probable trends affecting rehabilitation counseling changes in clientele, settings, counselor preparation and role, and in technology. The author believes that employment opportunities for rehabilitation counselors will continue to increase and that persons with…

The author traces the development of guidance and counseling from the nineteenth century to the present with implications for the future. The impact of the progressive movement, vocational guidance, industrialization, psychometrics, and Carl Rogers are highlighted. The 1950's are singled out as the decade having the greatest effect on counselors.…

Discusses situational and emotional factors unique to job-loss following corporate failure. The dynamics of corporate failure and the special counseling needs of former employees are illustrated by the failure of Braniff Airways. Counseling should focus on marketable work skills, vocational testing, and flexibility in dealing with personal…

According to the author, counseling programs (i.e. ones which do more than give out information and help employees move from incompatible jobs within the company to more suitable ones) are relatively rare in business and industry. It appears that counseling in industry will be provided by its own people--the line supervisor and the personnel…

The author recounts major events in the emergence of secondary school counseling as a profession in the United States. She then briefly describes present trends (group counseling, career education, and use of automated equipment) and current debates (over counselor role and label, counselor-student ratio, etc.) Issues of future concern to the…

This article focuses on obligations of guidance personnel in the new movement to provide equal services for noncollege-bound students. Stress is placed on four major types of change: structural (e.g. lower counselor-pupil ratios), preparation of counselors, programmatic (e.g. job placement services), and directional (e.g. improved counseling for…

Describes the rationale and development of a new specialty--vocational school psychology--and its probable impact on the functioning of secondary school counselors. Discusses needed support services in vocational education programs for disadvantaged and handicapped secondary school students. (Author/RC)