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Download full textByrd, Virginia – 2002
The Sandwich Generation refers to individuals who have multiple caregiving responsibilities for children under 18, as well as parents, grandparents or other aging relatives. Employees who are the caregivers cannot help but bring the stress of the situation to the workplace. Existing research suggests that these responsibilities take a toll on…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Family Caregivers, Family Work Relationship
Kerka, Sandra – 1995
In an era of organizational restructuring and technological change, individuals can no longer plan on spending their entire working lives with one organization. Career paths are no longer a linear rise up the ladder. Adult career counselors deal with an extremely heterogeneous population who are at vastly different stages of life. Their clients'…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adults
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1995
Family influence is an important force in preparing youth for their roles as workers. Family background factors found to be associated with career development include parents' socioeconomic status, their educational level, biogenetic factors, and family income. Family processes of interaction, communication, and behavior influence what the child…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
Kerka, Sandra – 2001
Life is more complex than ever for adults in the 21st century as a result of technological advances; the changing nature of work, workplaces, and working relationships; international economic competition; the changing demographics of workers, families, and communities; and longer life spans. Learning to cope with all these changing…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Learning
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2003
The evolution of the workplace has required changes in the guidance and counseling practices of career education (CE). Basic elements of CE strategies for enhancing students' career awareness, exploration, and planning are still in place, but contemporary issues such as life-work balance, involuntary career transitions, and mentoring have led to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Kerka, Sandra – 2002
Career development has taken on global significance as individuals prepare for work that increasingly crosses borders. Internationally, individuals and career practitioners helping them are grappling with such issues as development of cultural competencies for cross-cultural work. Issues vary in different sociopolitical contexts. As Eastern Europe…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Development, Career Education
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
