A model for career assessment of persons with disabilities includes comprehensive evaluation of aptitudes, achievement, interests, career maturity, self-efficacy, and relevant medical/psychological information. A computerized system of skill analysis and job matching helps synthesize this information and generate potential careers. (SK)

Assessment and decision making are core phases of the career counseling process. In the assessment phase, and understanding of vocational self-concept develops through an integration of one's values, skills, abilities, interests, needs, personality, style, and other factors. Career counselors have used a variety of standardized, quantitative…

Suggests that an important aspect of the career decision-making process is the awareness that uncertainty is normal, natural, and most likely unavoidable. Also suggests that it is as useful, and even vocationally mature, to be both certain and uncertain about making a career decision. (Author/LKS)

Demonstrates difficulty in proving medium-term and long-term effects of career maturity on career adjustment and the connection with research and theoretical shortcomings. Presents empirical evidence supporting self-concept orientation in choice of present major and realization of preferences acts as mediating factors between career development…

Examines theories of career development and vocational choice and discusses implications for the related functions of career education and guidance of Black youths. Urges that career education for Black children systematically counter environmentally fostered negative development in the affective domain. (RDN)

One of the new dimensions of vocational and career counseling is the recognition of the continuity in careers. Despite periods of unemployment and despite a radical change of occupations, the person having these experiences of change is still the same person. Although a career involves the life pursuits of a person, there are several differing…