Career maturity denotes degree of readiness to make realistic career choices. Clients below a certain threshold of readiness lack the life experiences and personal inclinations needed to make fitting occupational choices. To increase their readiness, a counselor may help these clients develop the decisional attitudes and learn the choice concepts…

Theorizes that there are two primary dimensions or continua along which delays or dysfunctions may occur in career decision making: the decided/undecided state and the decisiveness/indecisiveness trait. Suggest that the combination of the two dimensions yields four distinct diagnostic categories which demonstrate the need for differential…

There are three basic types of career indecision: (1) developmental; (2) acute situational-reaction; and (3) chronic indecision. Developmental indecision is usually alleviated by maturity as well as by self-awareness activities and career information. Acute situational-reaction indecision is relieved by the removal of situational or environmental…

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…

Seeks to clarify the differences between traditional and dialectical perspectives on career development. Describes the application of a dialectical model to career evolution based on the assumption that an individual's work experiences and other life experiences exert an ongoing, reciprocal effect on career development. (Author)