Ensuring Quality in Theory, Research, and Practice: The Career Development Quarterly

Ensuring Quality in Theory, Research, and Practice: Journal of Employment Counseling

“…As such, the JEC attracts authors from management and human resources backgrounds as well as career counseling and psychology. A similar diversity in authors' backgrounds is reported by the editors of other career journals (Duffy, 2017;Flores, 2017;Gati, 2017;Schultheiss, 2017). The range of academic, theoretical, and experiential author backgrounds can result in complications for integrating research and career practice.…”

“…Howard (2016) provided a summary of the papers presented by Duffy (2017); Flores (2017); Furbish and Smith (2017); Gati (2017);and Schultheiss (2017) during Plenary Panel IV "A View from the Editor's Desk: Ensuring Quality in Theory, Research, and Practice" during the 2016 SVP Conference. She insightfully identified that a unifying theme across the papers was that the integration of career theory, research, and practice is not unidimensional.…”

“…Practice often provides the context for suggesting processes and relationships that can become the foundation of theory and for suggesting research designs to investigate theory. Duffy (2017) points out that the majority of articles appearing in career journals are written by academics who are not actively engaged in career practice. Thus, discussions of applications of research findings in journal articles are often barren.…”

“…Flores (2017) notes also that involving practitioners as editorial board members and reviewers can provide useful feedback to authors during the review process. Duffy (2017), Flores (2017), Gati (2017), and Schultheiss (2017) all recognize the value interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration for career research. By involving researchers and practitioners from different academic backgrounds, the opportunity arises to identify how research results can be applied to a diverse range of career practice settings and issues.…”

Journal of Career Development: Recommendations for Future Journal Practices for Integrating Career Theory, Research, and Practice

“…Like most journals, JCD's editorial team, including the editor, associate editors, and editorial board members are largely faculty engaged in research and training. This is true of the authors who submit manuscripts for consideration in JCD: They are typically faculty, graduate students, or individuals who have research oriented appointments (Duffy, 2017). It is more difficult to enlist the participation of career counseling practitioners or vocational psychology professionals in other roles to serve as reviewers or to develop manuscripts because these activities are not required for their positions.…”