High school students responded to questionnaires measuring need for achievement and fear of success and indicated their future occupational and educational aspirations. Female students were found to aspire to less demanding occupations than male students and both motivational constructs predicted vocational aspirations. (Author)

Develops some of the vocational constructs available through Computerized Heuristic Occupational Information and Career Exploration (CHOICES). By making choices immediately through reality-testing in a low-risk counseling environment, the counselor and client are provided with valuable data within a vocational counseling experience. (Author)

Identifies some career education assumptions, describes the characteristics of experiential learning, and illustrates how experiential learning is suited to address the career education assumptions. (Author)

Explores ways in which projective assessment can be more effectively integrated into career counseling. Introduces new types of career projective techniques and suggests that the emphasis should be on using these methods to conduct structured counseling interviews. (Author)

This article describes the process used by a high school counselor to design career decision-making activities, field-test the activities, and use the field-test results to determine the most effective career decision-making program. (Author)

As a result of parent interviews, the author, also a parent, suggests that parents generally find the same faults with services that counselors do. Parents see a need for more and better counselors, better personal and vocational counseling and better communication between counselors and the home. A number of recommendations are offered to improve…

As schools expand career counseling services to include the adult community, the special needs of women in mid-life require new approaches. Such a program involving communication skills, assertion training, outside speakers, vocational testing, life style planning and goal setting is outlined in this paper. (Author)

Technologically advanced nations are now experienceing strong social pressures for greater flexibility in the formal education and career planning of youth and adults. Vocational psychologists will need to determine whether their models and empirical data are still relevant for solving problems in repidly changing societies. (Author)

The characteristics, motives and goals of mature male students (N=22) are compared to those of an age-matched sample of mature women continuing their education. Men continued their education for career-oriented reasons, while women were seeking more personal goals. Explanations are suggested for male compliance with stereotypes. (Author)

Investigates: (1) the ability of the Canadian Occupational Interest Inventory (COII) and the Self-Directed Search (SDS) to discriminate among Grade 12 students; (2) inter-scale correlations of these measures; and (3) relationships between the student groups' interest patterns and external reference points. Findings indicate the scales discriminate…

This paper traces the steps taken in Alberta to implement the SGIS (Student Guidance Information Service) system, describes the procedures, some of the pitfalls, and discusses the Vocational Information Service for Alberta in relation to other computer-based systems. (Author)

The present research project was undertaken to assess the opinions and perceptions of students, parents and community representatives of a typical secondary school career guidance program. The response indicated a wide distribution of opinion on certain aspects and a marked consensus on other facets of the career guidance program. Results are…