Presents a workable, systemwide model for career awareness and development on the college level. Purports that career development must be seen as more than mere information giving, and must incorporate all facets of an institution's endeavors from the classroom to the actual decision-making processes of the individual. (Author/PC)

The paper describes the Academic Internship Program for Handicapped Students at the University of California, Riverside. An introductory section provides an overview of internships in terms of function, purpose, supervision, grading systems, needs of interns, and conclusions from the literature. The project addresses student problems in the…

The goal of this program is to address the ongoing issue of the delivery of quality counseling services. The delivery crisis, present in many areas of counseling and psychological services, is also a reality in career development services. In fact, it is an accelerating issue in career development services because of new demands that work should…

The Vocational Rating Scale (VRS) is a 40-item self-rating scale which attempts to directly assess the individual's awareness of the degree and nature of patterns in his or her specific vocational self-concepts. Scores on the VRS are related to the degree of certainty regarding overall self perception. (Author)

Korman and Super differ in regarding vocational self-concept crystallization of high and low self-esteem persons. This was measured by the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale using undergraduate students. A significant difference was found for both sexes in the degree of crystallization across self-esteem levels, therby supporting Super's model. (Author)

Examined relationship between career maturity and commitment to work, sex, socioeconomic status, and college level among 372 undergraduates. Found commitment to work related to both attitudinal and cognitive factors of career maturity. Sex and socioeconomic status were not related to career maturity. (Author/NB)

Discusses the concept of college student development, leisure planning on the campus, the relationship of leisure and career development, implications for career development, and implications for the career counselor and student activities staff members. (CT)

Administered the Career Maturity Inventory to 159 college students. Path anlaysis suggested that career attitudes matured with age and directly affected months employed during college and grade point average and, through the mediation of GPA, affected the occupational level of the students' jobs. (Author/JAC)

Discusses the Intraview: Communication Intervention Strategy as a means of reducing high Communication Apprehension (CA). This intervention strategy, based on helping individuals to know more about themselves and their interactions with others, was implemented in a pretest, posttest, and control design, and CA was reduced at a statistically…

Individuals hoping to thrive in the workplace require resources and professional support that are responsive to their holistic needs and enhance their effectiveness in navigating continuous change. Career counselors are likely to be of greatest assistance to their clients when they take into account all the personal, mental, physical, and…

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) undergraduates are a population at-risk of noncompletion of their degrees, but they are almost entirely overlooked in the career-development literature. The Mentoring Web model described in this paper uses resources within the LGB community at a large Southwestern university to provide one-on-one mentoring, focus…

Discusses five developmental tasks encountered by college students during late adolescence and early adulthood: (1) shift in relationship with parents; (2) resolution of personal sexual identity; (3) creation of value system; (4) development of capacity for intimacy; and (5) choice of life's work. (Author)