Clients with flat profiles on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) represent a difficult counseling problem. For such clients, a method is proposed to rescore parts of the SVIB in the framework of Holland's theory of vocational choice. (Author)

A panoramic view of Guidance Division general sessions and workshops covering some exemplary career guidance programs, as well as such topics as career choice, leadership, evaluation, and program development and management. Presented at the Guidance division session of the American Vocational Association 1971 annual meeting. (Editor/MU)

The use of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank with disadvantaged women showed that the Strong Interest Blank can be useful in recognizing individuality in disadvantaged women and in helping them to choose satisfying job training experiences. (Author)

Today, many young people desiring to serve their country are looking at military service with renewed interest. For some, the reserves may be the better answer than full-time military service or a great way to test the waters. (Author)

A four-component model for career decision-making counseling relates each component to assessment questions and appropriate intervention strategies. The components are (1) conceptualization (definition of the problem); (2) enlargement of response repertoire (generation of alternatives); (3) identification of discriminative stimuli (consequences of…

Reviews a theory of decision making that has implications for the decisional counseling of youth facing the transition from school to work. Suggests that the conflict theory model may be useful in counseling adolescents in occupational and educational decision making. (JOW)

Articles from Career Development Quarterly (n=791) and Journal of Vocational Behavior (n=1,062) over 20 years were classified by areas of research/practice, author, institution, and leading contributors. CDQ focused on lifespan career development and career interventions; JVB on the person-environment perspective and vocational behavior assessment…

The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory provides a way of determining the fit between individual preferences and potential occupations. It can give people an appreciation of their strengths and weaknesses and awareness of possible blind spots. Recognition of individual types can help in selecting appropriate steps for career planning and lifelong…

The Unisex Edition of the ACT Interest Inventory is intended for people in early stages of career planning. The world of work map, extending Holland's hexagon into a visual occupational map, links assessment results with occupational options. (SK)

Asserts that inadequate attention has been given to incorporating family members in career counseling setting with adult clients. Explores a career counseling paradigm that takes into account the couple dynamics active in the adult's career choice process. Unique elements of the conjoint model, such as couple career assessment, along with…

Four sources of self-efficacy than can be useful in career counseling are enactive attainments, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and physiological arousal. Self-efficacy interventions may benefit women, minorities, and disadvantaged individuals. The Career Search Self-Efficacy Scale is a useful instrument for such interventions. (SK)

Reports on 30 career counseling interviews reviewed using a discourse analytic method. Findings indicate that clients present various dilemmatic themes of career in their talk. Three types of dilemmas were pervasive: uncertainty versus certainty, interests versus practical, and focus versus options. Suggests that career theorists and counselors…

Describes how the logical positivist perspective on indecision as an objective phenomenon has evolved. Explains how constructivist counselors view indecision as clients' subjective attempts to give meaning to crisis points in their lives. This view permits a conceptualization of career counseling as a process of articulating a clients' life theme.…

Data from 95 career counseling clients and from their counselors supported the validity of the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire. Compared with a sample of 259 young adults, counselees had significantly fewer difficulties related to motivation but more difficulties in six other categories. (SK)