This position paper on quality career guidance programs outlines basic assumptions, guidelines, a comprehensive program development model, and recommended uses. Highlights of the program development model include management questions, information, and program standards. This represents NVGA/AVA Guidance Divisions efforts to establish standards for…

Documents background events giving rise to Creation and Mobilization of Counselling Resources for Youth (CAMCRY), Canadian national initiative directed at effecting improvement in career counseling to enable more youth to enter labor market without serious difficulty. Highlights novel and collaborative aspects of the initiative. Notes there are 41…

The authors discuss how individual counselors and agencies can facilitate the vocational development of older adults. (CH)

Depicts an experiential learning schema that is a framework for an integrated postsecondary program. The program would be located in the career center and would include (1) volunteer service, (2) externships, (3) internships, (4) cooperative education, and (5) part-time work or work-study. Presents possible outcomes. (CH)

This book supports the notion of the counselor as a professional who demonstrates an intellectual comprehension of the guidance and counseling mission. The renaissance counselor is defined as someone who charts a course that incorporates personal and professional development, and inspires direction, accountability, and responsiveness to students,…