The career development-vocational psychology literature has been marked by 2 persistent problems: a slow response to new developments in basic areas of psychology, such as developmental psychology, and a lack of representation of populations other than White and middle-class groups as research participants or as foci of theoretical explanation. After a brief discussion of 2 factors that may have contributed to these problems, a rationale for a new location for this field is developed. The new location focuses on the study of work in people's lives from the perspective of social constructionism and from the perspective of counseling psychologists as applied psychologists.

Counseling for work and relationship is a social constructionist perspective, informed by feminist and social justice values, and responsive to radical changes in contemporary lives, that fosters a shift in vocational psychology from helping people develop careers to helping people construct lives through work and relationship. The first and major proposition of this perspective is a new discourse for describing the construction of lives that specifies four major social contexts through which people construct lives. These social contexts are market work, personal care work, personal relationships, and market work relationships. Additional propositions of the counseling for work and relationship perspective are the centrality of narrative theory for understanding how lives are constructed and agentic action as a critical process in constructing lives. Implications for research, intervention, and training are considered.

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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 attention beyond the occupational domain to include multiple social contexts of work and relationship across both occupational and personal domains of life. The ways in which these shifts are responsive to theoretical and social contexts is considered.Résumé. Une autre manière de penser au travail que nous faisons: tenir conseil en vue du travail et de la relation. Tenir conseil en vue du travail et de la relation est proposé comme une autre voie pour penser la psychologie vocationnelle et l'orientation professionnelle. Cette voie peut contribuer à la recherche d'un nouveau paradigme pour ces champs. Cette façon de penser implique deux ruptures essentielles. Le passage d'un discours sur la carrière à un discours sur le travail et le passage à une augmentation de la centration de l'attention au delà du domaine professionnel pour inclure les multiples contextes sociaux du travail et des relations sociales à travers les domaines à la fois professionnels et personnels de la vie. On considère les axes selon lesquels ces ruptures sont sensibles aux contextes théori-ques et sociaux.Zusammenfassung. Eine andere Sichtweise der Arbeit, die wir tun: Beratung ü ber Arbeit und Beziehungen. Eine Beratung für Arbeit und Beziehungen wird hier vorgeschlagen als ein anderer Weg, über Berufspsychologie und Berufliche Beratung nachzudenken. Diese Sichtweise kann zu der Suche nach einem neuen

This study was designed to assess the dimensions of stress in early parenting and to determine differences in the salience of these dimensions according to specific demographic characteristics. Parenting is viewed as a stressful life event that is likely to entail wide individual variation in the perception of stress. Using an individual differences multidimensional scaling method with a sample of 38 parents, four dimensions of stress were identified. The first dimension, major versus minor child problems, appeared to be most problematic for parents in the sample in that it was most highly related to a set of adjectives describing unpleasant or stressful emotional states. Demographic differences on the four dimensions are discussed, as well as the implications of the results for understanding the stress of parenting.

This rejoinder to the three reactions papers by Blustein (2012), Byars-Winston (2012), and Lent (2012) focuses first on the issue of what is old and what is new about the counseling for work and relationship perspective. This includes the issue of holism, the influence of contextualism, and the designation of new categories and a new discourse for the major contexts of lives. I also elaborate on the meaning of care work and how the boundaries of this perspective might be extended to more fully respond to social justice concerns.