Describes a Diagnostic Model for Assessing the Effect of Developmental Issues on Career Action that is designed to help career counselors diagnose problems that are interfering with clients' career development and to determine appropriate interventions. (Author)

The moderating effect of self-actualization need strength on the relationships between job characteristics and job outcomes was investigated. Results provide strong support for its effect on the relationships between job complexity and four of five outcome measures and suggest that responses of workers in the public and private sector are similar.…

Measures differences in types of client needs perceived by various categories of counselors, the types of needs they attempted to help their clients gratify, and the needs that were viewed as gratified. (Author)

Proposes a psychodynamic-existential perspective as a theoretical model that explains career burnout and serves as a basis for a counseling strategy. According to existential theory, the root of career burnout lies in people's need to find existential significance in their life and their sense that their work does not provide it. (Contains 40…

Describes a career development project in Rapid City, South Dakota, that focuses on Native American parolees with multiple barriers to employment. The program was effective in placing 75% of its 1994 group in jobs. Clients reported that feeling valued and important was the most important aspect of the experience. (RJM)

Identifies resources available to assist the homosexual population with career planning and job search concerns. Discusses evolving legal issues of protection. Concludes counselors may see homosexual clients with more questions than the counselors can answer. (Author/ABL)

This article explores the experiences of two Work Incentive Program (WIN) Staff members in delivering employment-related services in a rural WIN program. It deals with three prevalent rural obstacles to employment: transportation, flexibility with individual cases, and sex barriers. (Author)

There has been a recent tendency in Manpower to view human services in mechanistic terms. This tends to cause an emphasis on large numbers of transactions as a guide to effectiveness. An alternative method of evaluating manpower services is offered. (Author)

It has been proposed that in order to meet the dilemma of societal viability, an open aristocracy or elite may be the most effective form of social structure while every effort is made to have the individual establish a strong ego identity within the context of the social order. (Author)

The goals and clientele of employment counseling require concern with social change as well as client change. (Author)

Describes a new programmed learning package, PLACE: Guided Steps to Employment Readiness. The package provides a measurable definition of employability and helps clients measure their own employability and prepare themselves for work. (Author)

Presents a brief overview of the complex critical issues that play a part in the lifestyle of the dual-career couple. Recommendations are introduced that would increase the effectiveness of career development counseling for individuals who either anticipate being part of, or are currently part of, a dual-career couple. (JPS)

Focuses on counseling workers who are left jobless when manufacturing plants close. Identifies settings in which redundancy counseling could take place, discussing goals of such counseling, and the special characteristics and counseling needs of displaced workers. (RC)