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Phillips, Susan D.; Blustein, David L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1994
Considers Super's explication of developmental tasks of planning, exploring, and deciding as readiness for career choices. Reviews existing means of conceptualizing and operationalizing various aspects of readiness. Describes selected elaborations and extensions of readiness construct. Presents directions for theory and research on readiness,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Developmental Tasks, Readiness
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Savickas, Mark L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1994
Notes that Super's work to linguistically explicate and operationally define career development and its central processes has strongly influenced how counselors comprehend and guide their clients' vocational behavior. Explains how Super conceptualized career development in terms of life stages and developmental tasks, and how he proposed that…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Development
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Fouad, Nadya A.; Arbona, Consuelo – Career Development Quarterly, 1994
Gives overview of research on Super's theory across cultures within United States and internationally. Notes that research indicates that theory has some cross-cultural validity, yet there seem to be measurement concerns. Discusses two areas for future investigation: development of ethnic identity as vocational task and research on developmental…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Kerr, Barbara A. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1986
Career development of creatively gifted adults consists of three tasks: (1) dealing with career decision problems, (2) finding training and support, and (3) maintaining productivity. Counselors can help clients face these tasks by emphasizing values in decision making, keeping abreast of innovations, and identifying and treating productivity…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Counseling, Adults, Career Counseling