A gap exists today between career counseling's reputation and its practice. Some view career counseling as boring, assessment driven, and impersonal, but those who actually become involved in practical experiences usually leave with a different impression. Introducing postmodern theory and practice into student affairs curriculum might attract…

Proposes a model for examining the challenges of providing career counseling in Asia in terms of prevailing and countervailing forces. The model also suggests a need to avoid a simple importation of Western models of career counseling, which may not be an optimal fit for the Asian cultural context. Instead, the cultural accommodation approach is…

This article discusses training issues related to the new paradigm proposed by Robitschek and DeBell, in which vocational topics in counseling psychology are viewed as primary issues and contextual factors in people's lives. Specifically, the new paradigm is conceptualized as a truly integrative career-personal perspective in the training of…

Super's life-span life-space theory offers a developmental framework for career counseling. This paper provides a brief overview of Super's theory of Life Career Rainbow (LCR) segment. The LCR feature is useful for identifying the stage of a client's career development and in formulating goals for counseling. The assessment is accomplished by…

In this paper the authors build on the evolving relationship between individuals and organizations, and the evolving practice of career development to explore opportunities and challenges in the future. The paper suggests that a two-way relationship of affiliation will be needed in the future between organizations and individuals to maximize…

Boundaries are limits that define us as separate from others. Although this concept is a familiar one in personal and addictions counseling, it is seldom discussed in career development or career counseling. Yet boundary issues arise constantly in working relationships, in the job-application process, among employees, and especially with…

Four types of career counseling are described: a traditional vocational counseling approach which helps the client with a specific decision; teaches decision making skills; one which views career development as a process rather than an endpoint; an one which focuses on creating the ability to utilize one's own strengths to achieve self determined…

Summarizes Harren's (1979) career decision-making model. Identifies in six steps how the model can be used as a systematic method for working with career clients. Demonstrates usage of this systematic method through a case study. Suggests this method enhances the counselor-client relationship. (JAC)

Discusses aspects of the Pima county (Arizona) career guidance project: counseling theory, the counselor-consultant model, community resource center services, project accountability, and future needs. (CT)

Presents a broad view with which to survey theory, research, and practice in career exploration. Looks at contributions to career adaptability and applies the "life-career rainbow" to current areas of ambiguity in the career exploration literature. Discusses the theoretical implications of a context-rich view and suggests counseling…

Provides an overview of traditional career development theory and juxtaposes it with new perspectives on work as an expression of a spiritual connection with meaning. Suggestions for counseling practices that combine meaning in work and life are offered. Argues that adopting such a view will enhance therapeutic flexibility. (RJM)

The Employment Department's invitation to bid for pilot programs for work-based competency training represents a contrast to off-the-job academic training. Informed debate and empirical findings would contribute to the constructive management of these changes. However, Kidd et al.'s research on careers officers' use of theory in guidance…

Proposes that counseling can assist people who are nearing retirement to become aware of their perceptions of their vocational roles. Counseling can help these older adults develop "vocational scripts," that is, adaptive views of the self at work that enhance personal perceptions of productivity and agency. (RJM)