Presents several major components of family systems theory that have strong potential for influencing career choice. Suggests implications and recommendations for using family systems theory in the career counseling process. (RC)

Describes a group counseling effort at Queens College of CUNY aimed at helping liberal arts majors examine individual interests, define career goals, and explore vocational opportunities. (Author/HMV)

Compared women physicians (N=87) and their women neighbors (N=87) on family background, education, attitudes, goals, and mention of early support. Neighbors with career goals were similar to women physicians in many of their reasons for a career, but reported less family influence, achievement motivation, and encouragement from others. (Author)

Counselors and educators can help clarify factors involved in the vocational choice process with high school and college girls, where these factors differ from those affecting men. Clarification should be built into high school and college guidance programs for girls. Society will gain if women choose careers commensurate with their potential.…

Reviews literature concerning women who choose nontraditional occupations. Discusses female career choice in general, and describes characteristics and traits of the nontraditionalistic woman, including personality, motivational and background traits. Discusses the effects of federal antidiscrimination legislation and current trends in women's…

Outlines seven stages of the reflective judgment model of intellectual development. Discusses implications of the model for effective career counseling of college students. Explores the theory's career counseling implications for two of the stages. (RC)

Describes two career decision-making programs. One enrolls students in a professional curriculum and in an independent study course in which the student reads about careers and interviews people off campus. The other involves a contract method to allow students in a school-without-walls to train for and explore specific careers. (SE)

Describes a self-assessment course designed to help students determine whether they want to become teachers. Identifies the goal of the program as helping students identify and build on personal qualities important to the educator. Describes advantages to education undergraduates and counseling student group leaders. (LLL)

This article describes a multiple approach to interweaving career education into the overall program of a junior high school. Existing courses were re-organized to include: (1) six exploratory courses for seventh graders. (2) television and communication classes, and (3) a manufacturing class. Eighth and ninth graders were allowed to replace daily…

There is no provision in career education for formally fostering such general attitudes as a sense of agency and a feeling of self-esteem or such basic skills as time management and interpersonal cooperation. This article discusses the need for providing basic attitude and skill training. (Author)

Discusses birth order as a determinant of occupational roles. Considers the first- and second-born experience in relation to occupational status and choice. Explores sibling dynamics and the need for striving for significance in the family. Discusses identification and analysis of family constellations. (RC)

The author describes the concept of "cooling out" as developed by Burton Clark and examines its applicability to the experience of women in the two-year college. The author concludes that cooling out as experienced by women is congruent with but not exactly like the process as described by Clark. (Author)

Young people considering enlistment in the armed forces often need objective assistance in the decision-making process. The authors discuss how counselors are in a unique position to help: by increasing the scope of information available, by safeguarding the rights of potential enlistees, and by working to eliminate recruitment abuses. (Author)

Discusses the matching model of assessment in educational and vocational counseling and suggests that it inhibits developmental counseling. A stage-theory model is proposed instead and is case illustrated. The career development model emphasizes autonomy, commitment, career maturity, and a good match of developing interests with career roles. (JAC)

Student indecision regarding careers and college majors has been the focus of research studies for years. Undecided students are normal, growing, predictable individuals in various stages of vocational and cognitive development. Developmental concepts in academic advising, career counseling, teaching, and administration can lead students to…