Integrated computer-assisted career counseling and guidance systems use computers to assess self-knowledge and identify likely careers and counseling to discuss and analyze results. In Australia, a number of U.S.-developed and Australian-adapted computerized tools and integrated systems are in wide use. (JOW)

Provides a framework for guiding clients through transitions by explaining the nature of transition, outlining styles of dealing with transition, and offering a methodology to determine whether coaching, counseling, or consulting is best for a particular situation. (JOW)

Describes "Taking Control of Your Career and Your Future, for Nurses by Nurses," a professional development initiative that consists of a workshop and follow-up career counseling. (JOW)

An organizationally based career development model posits that considering both individual and organizational perspectives is problematic and planning must take both a causal and purposive perspective. Computer-assisted career guidance can assist in developing individual action plans and provide aggregate data for organizational development. (JOW)

Defines learning disabilities and relates them to adult learning theory. Describes their impact on adults as they move through their developmental tasks. Compares biological and psychological models and discusses workplace accommodations, legal compliance, and suggestions for career counselors. Contains 60 references and a list of web resources.…

The mentoring program for reentry women at Metropolitan State College in Denver is based on a cafeteria approach in which the student selects resources from multiple choices. A multifaceted course teaches women how to access career resources and choose mentors, placing them at the center of a web controlling the strands of their own progress. (SK)

The author examines various aspects of male midlife crisis and its effects on the man's career, including the following: What are the implications for an organization, if behavioral changes or dissatisfaction with past patterns extends into the employee's job and leads this same individual to become a dissatisfied employee, to consider a career…

This conceptual model is organized around these constructs: individual and organizational needs, management, employee, and cooperative initiatives. Appropriate activities have either a short-term focus (performance and productivity management) or a long-term focus (career management and organizational development). (CPAD Network, 1190 South…

Interviews with 70 successful people with learning disabilities resulted in a model for successful employment. Elements include control, internal decision, adaptability, goal orientation, reframing, persistence, goodness of fit, learned creativity, proactivity, and social ecologies. (JOW)

Suggests that the career self-reliance model that proponents represent as a model shift, has, in reality, been the cornerstone of U.S. economic life for the last two centuries. Discusses the valuable precepts of career self-reliance as a useful counseling model as well as its serious, unexamined flaws. (JOW)

The Self-System-Synergy model provides the philosophical framework for the concept of career resiliency, which has become the basis for many organizational initiatives. The three elements are self-reliance (the power of personal beliefs), interdependence (the connectedness of multiple systems), and self-renewal through continuous learning. (JOW)

To examine implications of a career developmental relationships model, data were gathered from 64 students in a social sciences doctoral program. Findings supported the hypotheses that (1) career mentors and peers were rated higher than sponsors on communication and affective bond and (2) mentors and sponsors rated higher than peers on power.…

Models of counseling and training that are sensitive to adult developmental needs are necessary. Peer coaching is being implemented within a traditional counselor training program at California State University. This program integrates the concepts of mentoring and developmental career counseling to promote the career and educational development…

Paul Stevens' model of career development--a holistic approach to work and personal life as the components of a career--was adapted for use at Australian Guarantee Corporation. The strategy included internal promotion, use of focus groups to identify staff issues, pilot workshops, executive support, linkage with other human resource functions, and…

This issue on counseling in the third quarter of life includes 17 articles on planning for and adjusting to retirement, traveling, aging, programs for women, employment, transitions, looking for a job, mentoring, playing, and connecting with nature. Articles focus on the third quarter as a time to respond to old calls and answer new ones. (JOW)