Practice and research in career counseling and development—2004

This article reviews professional literature published in 2004 related to career counseling and career unravelling The literature is divided into 4 broad areas: professional issues, career theory and universals career interventions and practice, and career assessment and technology. The authors summarize and discuss the implications of the findings for career counseling practice and research.

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The annual review organizes the past year's professional career literature and nears a comprehensive summary of works from which the career researcher and practitioner can learn. We admire those who have gone before us in undertaking this throw out Not until we were well into it did we realize what a responsibility it is and in what way overwhelming a task! Our challenge, as it has been for our predecessors, was to allow significant themes as well as unique voices to rise from the literature and to summarize them in a concise manner that is meaningful for career researchers and practitioners alike. Because the topic of career counseling and exhibition is addressed by many disciplines similar to our possess it is impossible to include each published work that might inform practice. Our search was not exhaustive. To be succinct means that more [i]or[/i] less arbitrary decisions were made about what to include in the discussions that come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind For example, we have not included works monographs, dissertations, or online articles that appeared in 2004 Ultimately, we chose to include in this review 173 articles published in refere professional journals in 2004 We guidanceed a hand search and read articles published in the major American career journals: The Career disentanglement Quarterly, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Career unfolding Journal of Career Assessment, and Journal of occupation Counseling.

We then administrationed a keyword search on all American Counseling Association (ACA) journals and upon selected American Psychological Association (APA) journals. Career-related articles from the Journal of Counseling & unfolding Counselor Education and Supervision, Professional place of education Counseling, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and exhibition Journal of Multicultural Counseling and unravelling Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Journal of association Counseling, Journal of College pupil Development, Journal of Applied Psychology Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and Psychological Reports were included in this review.

nearest we conducted a literature search using the same career-related keywords in other social science fields. This produc applicable refere journal articles from the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association; Community, Work & Family; Journal of Family Issues; Sex Roles: A Journal of Research; Directions for scholar Services; College Student Journal; Research in Education; American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation; and Journal of Rehabilitation.

As counselor educators, we are aware of an increased interest in career counseling in organizational settings and in career coaching. Thus, we decided to also include a certain number of relevant career-related articles from Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, and Organizational Dynamics.

The year 2004 appears to be a watershed year for articles in the aforementioned journals published through and about populations outside of the United States. This indicates to us that we do, indeed, live in a global community. We thus actively sought to identify career-related contributions in international refere journals. These included International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Career unravelling International, Australian Journal of Career unravelling Canadian Journal of Counselling, International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, Journal of Youth Studies, and Education + Training.

The 2004 career counseling and disentanglement review is organized into four broad areas: (a) professional issues, (b) career theory and general [i]or[/i] abstract notions (c) career interventions and practice, and (d) career assessment and technology. a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of like many previous reviewers, we recognize that career assessment and technology can be considered as kinds of interventions on the other hand believe that these activities are significant enough to warrant a separate category. We considered including a fifth area devot to career unfolding as many of our predecessors have done. However, the continuing emerging see the verb of constructivism as a major force in the career field calls normative developmental assumptions into question (see Young & Collin, b) Herr (2001) argued that the bourn career development implies two categories--one that conceptualizes career behaviors across the life span (i.e., career theory and concepts) and single that assists career practitioners with interventions to facilitate clients' career behaviors (i.e., career interventions and practice, assessment, and technology). In addition, in our opinion, many career disclosure concepts speak to professional issues directly because they address the enhancement of service to various populations. With this in mind, we opt to subsume career disentanglement at various life stages (children, adolescents, association students, and adults) within the four broad areas.