Investigated the employment outcomes of 103,417 rehabilitants, representing 13 disability categories. For each disabling condition, the top five occupations were reported. Results indicate that there was great similarity across the disability categories in types of employment, emphasizing the greater influence of functional abilities as opposed to…

Career indecision, personality, and ability measures used to derive career indecision types through cluster analysis for 566 first-semester, undecided students. Four distinct career indecision types were identified. Subsequently, effect of indecision type on response to a career exploration course was examined. Level of career indecision was not…

Calculations of average effect sizes were made for studies using none, one, or combinations of five critical career intervention ingredients: computer-assisted guidance, cognitive restructuring, vocational exploration, reading, and performance accomplishments. Analyses supported their importance and tested 16 hypotheses, identifying ways to…

Provides reviews of 40 websites related to all aspects of career choice, job searching, and career development. Includes information on the selection of websites to review and the guidelines for evaluating them. Includes an article reporting a survey of 74 counseling graduate students regarding use of the Internet for career development. (JOW)

Informs counselors of barriers to career achievement for women who choose nontraditional careers. Offers a simulation game, with management as the example, as a psychoeducational intervention strategy or preventive counseling model. Notes that The Management Game is based on empirical and descriptive research. Game directions; chance, situation,…

Information from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) can be related to vocational interests, career selection, and job performance. Use of the MMPI in career counseling depends on the extent of counselor training and expertise and on counselor views of the role of career counseling in human development. (SK)

Career adjustment and personal adjustment are separate, but they can converge during periods of intense work or family stress. Adjustment following a difficult career decision is affected by risk factors as well as by personal coping resources. (SK)

The decision-making model described highlights the interaction between contextual factors, decision triggers, establishing a frame of the problem, reframing, and action planning. The interactive perspective is based on process and change. Career counseling with an interactive decision-making approach requires an acknowledgment of external…

Describes pyramid model as useful tool to assist counselor and college student client in career decision-making process. Notes that the metaphor enables student to understand tasks that lie ahead in career counseling process. Includes case study that illustrates three-dimensional model of career counseling of university students. (Author/NB)

Reviews survey articles about vocational assessment that have appeared from 1935 through 1991. Identifies nine points that summarize what surveys have told about the teaching and practice of vocational assessment. Notes that Strong Interest Inventory dominates field as most frequently used and recommended vocational assessment procedure.…

A framework for integrating parental influence into adolescent career counseling has these steps: development of a trusting relationship; exploration of the valence of parental influence; and interventions depending on whether parents have positive, negative, or no involvement. (SK)

This 20-year review highlights the influence and visibility of the theories of Super and Holland and the role of Osipow in nurturing productivity in vocational behavior research. Citation data are presented to illustrate the impact of milestone publications; converging trends toward an integrated career psychology are charted. (133 references) (SK)

An interview with Donald Super focuses on life stages, determinants of career choice, role of career counselors, matching versus developmental emphasis, multicultural and gender issues, applications of theory, and future directions. (SK)

Career compromise was investigated in three framings (alternatives, aspect importance, within-aspect preference). Young adults and school counselors rated hypothetical stories. Results of four studies with different designs (Average N=106) supported the hypothesis. The alternatives framing was associated with greater compromise and decision…

Evaluates whether women participating in a career group designed to increase career-related self-efficacy would make gains on career decision-making self-efficacy and vocational exploration and commitment compared with women in a control group. Results indicate that women in the treatment group improved on career decision-making self-efficacy and…