National Career Development Association (NCDA) is excited to release the re-imagined 7th edition of their influential guide to career assessment. Re-conceptualized and renamed to "A Comprehensive Guide to Career Assessment," the "Guide" contains important information career counselors, educators, and practitioners will find…

This book contains exemplary resources for counselors, career development facilitators, school counselors, and other career professionals working in a variety of settings. This edition is an essential guide to career assessment and contains a comprehensive list of career assessment instruments. It has over 70 reviews and includes…

Counselling for work and relationship is proposed as another way of thinking about vocational psychology and vocational guidance. It can contribute to the search for a new paradigm for these fields. Central to this way of thinking are two shifts. A shift from a discourse about career to a discourse about work, and a shift to expand the focus of…

The vocational interests of rehabilitation counselors were explored by developing an occupational scale for the "Strong Interest Inventory, Revised Edition" (SII; 2004). A sample of 414 rehabilitation counselors who were satisfied with rehabilitation counseling as their profession completed an experimental version of the SII. Based on these data,…

This study had two objectives. The preliminary objective was to further test the psychometric properties of the short-version self-directed search that was intended to be a brief research tool for measuring Holland [Holland, J. L. (1973). "Making vocational choices: A theory of careers." Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; Holland, J.…

The Department of Labor, through a grant with the National Center for O*NET Development, has provided three instruments for use by career development practitioners. These include an interest inventory, a work values inventory, and an ability assessment. The tools are designed to provide results that can assist persons interested in learning about…

Suggests that counselors might profitably investigate new graphic approaches to showing clients what their multivariate profiles mean. Gives illustration in terms of Holland's RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) model of vocational interests. Notes that same issues and principles of graphic display would…

Describes methodology and procedures for an interactive approach to the interpretation of profiles in which few occupational scales are in the similar range. The answer sheet is used as a means of understanding and exploring the client's career thinking with counseling focusing on identification of client decision base, theme analysis, and…

This manual for counselors is intended for use with CHOICES, a computer assisted career guidance system. Following a brief introduction to CHOICES, the structure (in chart form) and an overview of the contents of the CHOICES system are given. Chapter 2 focuses on counseling clients, emphasizing the three-step helping process, i.e., preCHOICES, to…

This document is a manual for a work interest inventory to be used by examiners who want to identify the vocational preferences of special education students. The advantages of this test over others are stated to be the minimal perceptual skills and reading abilities needed to complete the answer sheet, depiction of work areas in which special…

High school students (N=44) participated in traditional and computer-assisted career exploration. Results indicated no differences in career exploratory behaviors or options selected. Students did, however, favor the computer-assisted treatment. No sex differences were found. (BL)

Investigated the usefulness and the methods for combining vocational interests and work aspect preferences. Results indicated the Vocational Preference Inventory has greater discriminatory ability than the Work Aspect Preference Scale. Implications for counselors are given. (Author/BL)

Discusses career/vocational assessment information as it is used to improve career-vocational preparation of youth with disabilities. Shows how counselors can help these students make transition from school to work or higher education by participating in multidisciplinary team. Discusses application of career-vocational assessment to educational…

This report is a preliminary investigation of differences in the pattern and level of interests between ethnic groups and control groups of Australian subjects. A theoretical framework for the development of cultural differences in interests is outlined. Self-estimates of interests are also examined to determine the extent to which individuals…

The measurement of college impact on students has received much attention over the past two decades. To examine stability and change in personality, vocational orientation, study habits, and attitudes of college students from freshman to senior year, two samples of undergraduates (N=51) were tested as freshmen and as seniors. Students completed…