Assessing influential factors in the family relative to career decision making is consistent with evolving postmodern approaches to career counseling. However, the challenge of measuring family influence is technically demanding considering the ongoing revolutionary changes in the structure of the family. Moreover, while measuring the impact of families on children, researchers may be inadvertently measuring the effects of children on the family. Nevertheless, currently available assessment methods are described and evaluated. Retrospective questionnaires, career genograms, Career-O-Grams, and critical incident techniques are reviewed. Although clinicians will find that qualitative assessment methods can be applied to career counseling, the tools are time consuming and demand a high level of clinical skill to use effectively. Researchers will discover that making generalizations from current qualitative methods may be difficult.
This annual review of the research and practice literature related to career counseling and development during 2007 is presented in 9 areas: professional issues, career assessment, career development, career theory and concepts, career interventions, advances in technology, personnel selection and job placement, international perspectives, and book reviews. Professional issues of a multicultural, multiethnic, and diversified workforce have become among the most frequently enumerated themes of the 2007 career development literature. The author summarizes and discusses the implications of the findings in this literature for the practice of career counseling.
A population of people that are living longer and working longer invite a reconsideration of interests and interest measurement as individuals make substantial changes in their vocational and avocational pursuits later in life. The relationship of interests to vocational hope and childhood exposure to work is also discussed.While serving on the editorial board of the Career Development Quarterly (CDQ), I was honored to be invited to prepare the annual review of practice and research in career counseling and development for the year 2007 (Chope, 2008). For the first time in what has amounted to a long tenure in the field of career counseling, development, and education, I read, categorized, and summarized essentially all of the literature in the career counseling/vocational psychology discipline for one entire year.The preparation of the review allowed me to reflect on the current trends in the field. I gained a new appreciation for the complexity and diversity of the field and the many different tracts that writers, researchers, and practitioners cover. I organized the review into nine areas: professional issues (including multicultural career counseling and social justice issues), career assessment, career development, career theory and concepts, career interventions, advances in technology, personnel selection and job placement, international perspectives, and book reviews. I concluded the review by emphasizing that new ideas regarding career theory, assessment, and practice are continuously evolving. I also pointed out that there are new bodies of research in multiculturalism and social justice that are having a deservedly vast impact on career counseling research and practice, including the advancement of new techniques. Furthermore, there was a greater focus
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