In 2003, the American Counseling Association (ACA) adopted the ACA Advocacy Competencies (J. A. Lewis, M. S. Arnold, R. House, & R. L. Toporek, 2002) to provide guidance to counselors and acknowledge advocacy as an ethical aspect of service to clients. This article provides a foundation for this special section by sharing a historical perspective…

A Canadian counselor rejects canned counseling concepts as she inspects the need for anticipation and adaptability in planning careers. (Author)

With changes in the world of work and with increased use of employment services, employment counseling is taking on added significance. The transformation of work realities and attitudes toward work are causing problems that the employment counselor must confront. Also greater demands are being made for his services. (Author)

Presents an overview of educational reform proposals emphasizing the lack of recognition for human development. Discusses why guidance and counseling has been ignored and why counselors are partly to blame. The role of the counselor in contributions to educational excellence is discussed. (BL)

In response to Goldman's allegation in volume 4 of this journal that testing and counseling are not complementary, the author describes the Career Planning Program which represents one attempt to improve the relationship between tests and counseling. (Author)

The involuntary client is a frequently encountered problem in employment counseling and other social agency counseling. Possible reasons for his recalcitrance are examined and their implications for the counseling relationship are discussed. (Author)

Discusses the counselor's responsibility in providing current and non-sexist career counseling. (HMV)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the employment counselor as a vocational counselor to dropout discussing such topics as: (1) functions, (2) problems of dropouts and their counseling implications, and (3) counseling the dropout. Included in the functions are: (1) representing the Employment Office in coordinating all programs…

This paper concerns itself with two relatively central issues in career development, life stages and choice behavior and focuses on the tasks of the college counselor in regards to them. Life stages refer to sequential series of tasks to be accomplished within time periods that can be specified. Choice behavior is the on-going process of making a…

The author examines some of the problems encountered in counseling academically gifted students. (HMV)

The author discusses how counseling psychologists differ from clinical psychologists and from personnel psychologists. He suggests that the way to solve the identity problem of counseling psychologists is to do well that which one is especially well qualified to do, whether that be clinical psychology, personnel psychology, or vocational…

The counselor should stress that occupational choice should be made in order to fulfill one's individual potential, not merely to earn a livelihood or to be practical. Counselors must help to end the circular process in which women discover and assert their gender by their choices'' of field, and then these fields take on a feminine character…

The author writes from his perspective as a clinical psychologist directing the clinical psychology program at Rutgers University. He describes his view of the blurring of professional psychology specialities complemented by the unique contributions counseling psychologists are able to make in the vocational counseling/world of works sphere.…

The second of a three-part series exploring the role of the employment counselor over 16 years in the "Journal of Employment Counseling" articles. Defines employment service counseling and explores its function, changing role, and purpose. Reviews the nature of professional relationships and the public image of the employment counselor.…