Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—2006

Abstract

The author presents professional literature published in 2006 related to career counseling and development. The literature is organized into 3 sections: (a) professional issues related to career development throughout the life span, culture, ethnicity, gender, and other specific topics; (b) research related to theoretical and conceptual advances; and (c) career interventions and practice, including issues related to career assessment and technology. Cohesive themes throughout this review are the concepts of social context embedded in career development, multicultural perspectives, and global and international perspectives of career development. Research is encouraged regarding career interventions that are based on career theories specific to certain cultures and in general for global needs.The annual review organizes the professional career literature published in 2006. This review of the literature was challenging, and I did not realize how overwhelming this task would be until I became immersed in the process. Despite my being overwhelmed, constant learning occurred and made my teaching and supervision work abundant. To make the literature review meaningful for career researchers and practitioners alike, I tried to be succinct in searching for and including articles to be reviewed. and Offender Counseling, and the Journal of Aging Studies. No books, book chapters, monographs, or electronic media are included in this review. Ultimately, this annual review covers 134 articles that were published in 2006 in refereed professional journals. The 2006 career counseling and development review is organized into three broad areas: (a) professional issues; (b) career theory and concepts; and (c) career interventions and practice, including career assessment and technology. This review differs from the previous reviews in that career assessment and technology were considered types of interventions because there was a limited number of new assessment instruments developed in the past year. The literature this year seemed to focus more on examination of career intervention programs than in previous years. In addition, in organizing this review, I chose to discuss each article in only one of the three areas, although it was clear that many articles could have been presented in more than one area.

Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—2008

“…Unlike the 2007 annual review (Tien, 2007), 2008 saw a surprisingly small published literature on technology-enhanced career development practice. Although career development has a long association with electronic delivery since the days of floppy disks and clunky desktop computers, the current challenge confronting the career counseling and development field is the evolution of practice in terms of Web.2 (i.e., cutting edge) technology (e.g., social networking, and three-dimensional, networked, interactive Internet).…”

“…As in previous annual reviews (Tien, 2007), balancing the commitments of work and family-broadly conceived-featured strongly as a professional issue. Peruniak reviewed the notion of quality of life and related it to career development.…”

Arts therapies students’ scores in profession-related variables: Quantitative results of a longitudinal study

“…Most such attempts, however, are based on personal knowledge (see Federman, 2010Federman, , 2011Feen-Calligan, 2005, for exception to this). In contrast to arts therapies scholars, scholars of related fields, including vocational or occupational psychology (Mooney, 2007), career counselling (Tien, 2007), and other human-service professions (Carlsson, Norberg, Sandell, & Schubert, 2011;Sutherland, Howard, & Markauskaite, 2010) frequently address student PD. For instance, psychotherapy and counselling scholars proposed developmental theories of supervisees (Stoltenberg, McNeill, & Delworth, 1998) and focused on critical learning incidents that influence students' PD and growth (Hill, Sullivan, Knox, & Schlosser, 2007).…”

Classroom learning environment and gender : do they explain math self-efficacy, math outcome expectations, and math interest during early adolescence?

“…The annual review of the career literature supports this assertion, noting that seeT remains one of the preeminent career theories (ehope, 2008;Patton & Mcllveen, 2009;Tien, 2007).…”

“…The role of math self-efficacy and STEM related academic and career behaviors has been highly researched (Chope, 2008;Lent, Lopez, & Bieschke, 1991, 1993Lent, Lopez, Lopez, & Sheu, 2008;Nagy et al, , 2010Nauta & Epperson, 2003;Patton & Mcllveen, 2009;Tien, 2007). Math self efficacy is predictive of math achievement (Friedel, Cortina, Turner & Midgley, 2010;Norwich, 1987;Pajares & Urdan, 2006) and of math-related academic and career interest (Byars-Winston & Fouad, 2008).…”