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Hartung, Paul J. – Career Development Quarterly, 2010
A review of the 2009 career counseling and development literature indicates that the field remains vital, vibrant, valid, and viable precisely 100 years after its founding. Using the field's 4 fundamental traditions of person-environment fit, life-span development, social cognition, and constructivism-social constructionism as lenses for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Social Cognition, Career Counseling, Literature Reviews
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Hartung, Paul J.; Porfeli, Erik J.; Vondracek, Fred W. – Career Development Quarterly, 2008
Childhood marks the dawn of vocational development, involving developmental tasks, transitions, and change. Children must acquire the rudiments of career adaptability to envision a future, make educational and vocational decisions, explore self and occupations, and problem solve. The authors situate child vocational development within human life…
Descriptors: Children, Career Development, Vocational Adjustment, Counseling Theories
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Hartung, Paul J. – Journal of Career Assessment, 1995
College students completed the Decisional Process Inventory, or DPI (n=248), Career Decision Scale (n=242), Occupational Alternatives Question (n=244), and Gestalt Contact Styles Questionnaire Revised (n=243). Results supported the DPI's content and criterion-related validity as a tool for assessing career decidedness. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Content Validity, Counseling Theories, Decision Making
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Hartung, Paul J.; Blustein, David L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2002
Nearly a century ago, Frank Parsons established the Vocation Bureau in Boston and spawned the development of the counseling profession. Elaborating on Parsons's socially responsible vision for counseling, the authors examine contemporary perspectives on career decision making that include both rational and alternative models and propose that these…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Counseling Theories, Decision Making
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Hartung, Paul J. – Career Development Quarterly, 2002
Career theory and practice have long emphasized person variables (e.g., abilities, needs, interests) and have only recently begun focusing on environmental variables in addressing cultural context issues. Argues that examining the cultural dimensions of social roles and values can enrich theory and enhance practice regarding life-career…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Theories, Cultural Context, Role
Niles, Spencer G.; Herr, Edwin L.; Hartung, Paul J. – 2001
The evolving role of work in society and the factors driving emerging trends in work were examined to assist career development practitioners in helping individuals deal with life-role balance. Donald Super's life-space theory was presented as a framework for adult career development and used as a backdrop for discussing how adults can crystallize…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Career Counseling, Career Development