Investigates the relationship among clients' intake concerns, intake goals, and career counseling concerns. Results indicate that intake goals focused primarily on resolving D. E. Super's (1957) exploration stage tasks, but concerns included education-related issues and ego dystonic emotions related to work. Intake concerns and goals were not…

To help clients increase career success and life satisfaction, counselors can elicit and examine clients' concepts about work and love. If client's personal meanings conflict with social meaning of work and love, counselors can link client beliefs to client's career concerns, provoking cognitive dissonance that motivates client to modify beliefs.…

Presents interview of C. H. Patterson who discusses career counseling as it can be accomplished within the client-centered approach. Notes the importance of core conditions, the relationship of career counseling to therapy, the difficulty of counselor or therapist role change, the use of interpretation of tests, and the role of the client in the…

Presents case study of a 25-year-old male who needed to make a career decision and sought the assistance of a career counselor. Describes client's career history, his family environment, occupational aspirations, and relationships which are important to his career plans. (Author/ABL)

Presents a plan for counseling services for the client described in previous article (Johnson, 1990). Discusses these components of the career counseling plan: assessment; personal counseling; information and exploration; and goal setting. Claims client must be alert to client's tendency to rely on others for career decisions. (ABL)

Presents a plan for counseling services for the client described in previous article (Johnson, 1990). Discusses client's counseling needs and presents a plan which includes assessing career interests and self-efficacy. Recommends client examine his value system. Concludes client's issues are more complicated than whether or not to accept a…

Reviews trends in career counseling with lesbian and gay clients. Presents role of career development with lesbian and gay clients based on information regarding employment discrimination, decision to pass as heterosexual on job, counselor and student training issues, age-related factors, and differences between gay men and lesbian women with…

Human service workers (n=75) each rated positive and negative family members and positive and negative co-workers on six dimensions drawn from Holland's vocational types. Positive family members were significantly more similar to positive co-workers than were negative co-workers. Negative family members were significantly more similar to negative…

Presents fourth in series of articles about difficult counseling problems for career counselors. Focuses on young adults in career transition, underscoring their needs for self-understanding. Considers underlying causes of floundering behavior and reasons that propel clients to retreat to career and psychological moratorium. Notes resource for…

Presents description of one rehabilitation counseling client, examining her past experience and future goals. Information provided by the client in counseling sessions is discussed and plans for improving her situation are suggested. (NB)

Examines the usefulness of postmodernism in career counseling. Makes a case for broadening career counseling theories and techniques to feature the contextual influences inherent in each individual's unique career history. Introduces a career intervention, titled the Career-O-Gram, as a tool for exploring contextual influences on career…

Using the Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA) as a framework for identifying potential career challenges for lesbians, the authors explores the relationship between outness and discrimination and the four primary components of TWA. Career counseling implications are discussed, and specific suggestions are made for counselors. (Contains 35 references.)…

Presents case examples demonstrating interconnection between career and noncareer issues. Notes that comprehensive and intensive personal exploration is needed to uncover relatedness of seemingly disparate areas of clients' lives. Contends that when comprehensive person-oriented career counseling is done there is recognition and integration of…

Identifies three realities about the client that set limits on how helpful the counselor can be. Discusses how counselors can work to build client's belief in self, pace at the client's rate, and build on a succession of short-term goals in order to help clients in career counseling. (NB)

Presents case of engineering college student who, after automobile accident, three months in coma, and four years of rehabilitation therapy, is seeking career counseling due to his frustrations with obtaining full-time professional employment. Notes that client had difficulty remembering new information; was physically slow; was mentally slower…