Discusses the value of diagnostic classification systems to counseling professionals. Describes the Ecological Diagnostic Classification Plan, an approach to diagnosis that includes the environment as a possible cause of pathology and target of intervention. (Author/KS)

Developed criteria for selection of career development program appropriate for mentally ill. Mentally ill persons who participated in Self-Directed Search (SDS) showed significant change on My Vocational Situation Identity Scale. Findings support selection of SDS as program and feasibility of offering career development services to mentally ill.…

Responds to article by Dorn (1986) on career development in business and industry. Provides clarification regarding definition, job titles, job roles, and points of entry for behavioral science professionals. Emphasizes human resource development rather than more generic use of counseling or career development in business and industry. (Author)

Discusses Career-Development Assessment and Counseling model, which implements current development theory and uses innovative assessment measures and improved counseling methods to improve vocational and life career counseling. Focuses on assessment, treating interests and preferences as basic status data to be viewed in light of career maturity,…

Highlights the relatively unexplored relationship between ordinary language explanations of career behavior and formal theories of career development. Classifies ordinary explanations of career behavior along two dimensions--extent to which explanations are founded in person or situation and extent to which they account for predictability.…

Contains five personal accounts: (1) "From Intern to Senior Staff: Movement toward Self-Nurturance" (William Holahan); (2) "Toward the Emergence of Professional Identity" (Marya Barey Kyril); (3) "Selling My Private Practice: When Less is More" (Lynn Rew); (4) "Mid-Life Career Change: Taking the Plunge" (Richard Weigel); and (5) "A Chance…

Interviewed Frank Fletcher, a leader in establishing counseling as a profession, about his life and his work. His responses provide a personalized perspective of the profession and of the significant events that influenced his career development. (Author/KS)

Reviews special issues of the "Personnel and Guidance Journal" and its successor, the "Journal of Counseling and Development." Categorizes the topics of the special issues as evidence of trends in the history of scholarly interests in counseling and development. Lists special issues. (Author/ABL)

Conducted a content analysis of the "Journal of Counseling and Development" for a 19-year period under four editorship periods from 1969 through 1988. Compares results to earlier studies to illustrate changes and trends in both the counseling professionals and the journal. (Author/ABL)

Encourages practicing counselors and researchers to consider career development as a key ingredient in the conceptualization of wellness. Considers it imperative to begin to assist clients in achieving this aspect of occupational wellness through the integration of career identity and personal identity. (Author/NB)

Notes that lack of minority counselors in field of career planning and placement often leaves minority students without option of seeing same-race counselor. Describes a training program designed to introduce minority staff to the field of career planning and placement as possible career choice. Discusses program goals, recruitment and selection…

Designed intervention combining clarification of needs and values, goal-setting counseling interview, and career planning group sessions to help gifted high school students overcome frustration of having too many career options. Found intervention effectively enhanced participants' desire to engage in discussion about career development with…

Studied sex differences among high school students (N=318) in career development process to determine whether sex differences exist in way six independent variables interact in career maturity causal model of career maturity and to compare each variable's effect on career maturity. Results suggest significant sex differences consistent with…

Evaluated program enhancing career development and writing skills of high school juniors (n=166) in which school counselors and English teachers worked together to help students develop academic skills while exploring relevant career issues. Results indicated that for wide range of students, participation led to achievement of specific guidance…

The implications of constructive developmental theory for career choice are explored, interplay between career transition and developmental transformation is examined, and counseling strategies for assisting transformation are proposed. Theories examined include Super, Piaget, Kohlberg, Perry. (Author/SR)