Defines career plateauing, explains types and sources of plateauing, and suggests counseling interventions to assist individuals to recognize and adjust to plateauing. Recommends proactive measures to perpetuate work motivation of effective plateaued workers and to remediate work behavior of ineffective, plateaued workers. Includes 19 citations.…

Reviews six work environment assessment approaches: ecological dimensions, behavior settings, dimensions of organizational structure, collective characteristics of people within an environment, functional or reinforcement properties, and psychosocial and social climate dimensions. Discusses implications for using these approaches in career…

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…

The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of "career" as it has been defined by a number of theorists and writers. Several categories of career definitions are discussed and their elements are analyzed. (Author)

Examined the relationship between vocational stability and person-environment congruence among 917 nonprofessional workers. Results found no support for the hypothesis that workers with high congruence are more vocationally stable than workers with low congruence. (BL)

Identifies the many subgroups within the African-American population and suggests guidelines for career counseling with different subcultures: rural and urban lower class, middle class, and underclass. (SK)

A client centered placement approach for handicapped people is proposed as an alternative to the traditional selective placement method. The client centered placement is based on client responsibility and counselor direction and requires the counselor to have an unrealistic but optimistic attitude that the client will get a suitable job.…

Presents annual review of important books and articles written in field of career counseling and development in 1992. Discusses articles that clarified meaning of career counseling and reviews articles dealing with understanding of self; work environment; decision-making process; implementing educational and vocational decisions; and adjusting to…

The preferences of a group of nonprofessional workers for a vocational counselor were solicited to ascertain whether participants would choose a counselor whose personality type matched their own. (Author)

Discusses counseling methods for individuals who, by virtue of their multiple interests, talents, skills, and drives, present unique career-making difficulties for themselves and for their counselors. Considers advantages and disadvantages of multipotentiality for career counseling, offers methods for identifying clients whose multipotentiality…

The authors take substantially different philosophical stances concerning placement in the rehabilitation process. Usdane believes that job placement is not given enough attention by rehabilitation counselors early in the rehabilitation process. Salomone advocates a greater emphasis on client growth and independence. (Author)

Notes that inclusion of older workers into the labor force is becoming a social and economic need. Asks counselors to encourage career planning for the total life span including years typically used for retirement. Addresses attitudinal obstacles to extending work lives, options for continuing work life, and effective procedures for promoting…

Extensive presentation and discussion of results of survey designed to provide information on work tasks and traits of both public and private agency counselors. Major instruments were Rehabilitation Counselor Task Inventory (378 counselors) and Abbreviated RC Task Inventory (educators, administrative personnel, and other professional…

Maintains presumed lack of applicability of vocational development theories to persons with developmental disabilities is rooted in assumptions concerning career behavior, scope of career development strategies, and employment potential of such persons. Suggests types of involvement in career decision making that persons with developmental…

Research evidence has accumulated to indicate that a sixth stage of career development--career renewal--occurs for many people between the end of the establishment stage and the beginning of the maintenance stage. Explains why a renewal stage was overlooked in the past, clarifies the meaning, and compares transitions of women and men. (Author/JBJ)