Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—2012

Abstract

This annual review of the 2012 career development/vocational psychology literature includes 191 empirical (69%) and conceptual (31%) articles from career, counseling, development, and international journals. The review is divided into 4 major areas: professional issues, work and well‐being, life‐span perspectives, and career theory and concepts. Subsumed within these clusters are foci on the status of career/vocational guidance around the globe, the career development experiences of immigrants, and the effects of economic stress. The authors offer three summarizing impressions. First, the 2012 collection is definitively global; this is a credit to the individual and institutional dimensions of the counseling profession. Second, the research articles represent a wide array of methodological approaches, and researchers have made wise research design choices for their areas of inquiry. Third, there is a true professional responsiveness to the needs of the world. It is suggested that the 2012 literature reflects Parsons's early vision of social justice and multiculturalism.

A Content Analysis of Career Development Theory, Research, and Practice—2013

“…Content analyses of journal articles take four basic forms. The first involves analyzing the content of multiple journals in career development in a given year, such as those published in CDQ , beginning with Savickas's 1988 review (Savickas, ) and continuing through Bikos et al's 2012 review (Bikos et al, ), as well as annual analyses of content in JVB (Fitzgerald & Rounds, ). The second involves analyzing the content of a single journal over an extended period of time, such as that of CDQ (Buboltz & Savickas, ; Loveland et al, ) or that of JCA (Whiston, Rose, Peterson, & Nguyen, ).…”

“…The number of articles and journals represented in the reviews has grown over time. Each one of those 25 reviews provided a brief summary of the content of articles by topic, as well as a commentary on the nature of the literature published that year (Arbona, 2000;Bikos, Dykhouse, Boutin, Gowen, & Rodney, 2013;Chope, 2008;Cook, 1991;Creager, 2011;Dagley & Salter, 2004;Erford & Crockett, 2012;Flores et al, 2003;Guindon & Richmond, 2005;Harrington & Harrigan, 2006;Hartung, 2010;Jepsen, 1992;Luzzo & MacGregor, 2001;Niles, 1997;Patton & McIlveen, 2009;Salomone, 1993;Savickas, 1989;Spokane & Hawks, 1990;Stoltz-Loike, 1996;Subich, 1994;Swanson & Parcover, 1998;Tien, 2007;Walsh & Srsic, 1995;Whiston & Brecheisen, 2002;Young & Chen, 1999). In reviewing past CDQ annual reviews, we identified some noteworthy trends.…”

The Challenges of Life Design Counseling in the Times of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)

“…Previous career counseling often serviced individuals faced with career dilemma, such as those people swaying in the career transition and those with low career self-efficacy (Bikos et al, 2013 ). LDC attempts to help individuals discover the life theme from the narrative process and build and create careers in the long run, not just focus on the current career challenges.…”

Research-based knowledge: researchers’ contribution to evidence-based practice and policy making in career guidance

“…In the annual review of the 2012 career guidance/career development/vocational psychology literature, the conclusion is that mixed-method approaches constitute 6 % of the research articles published (Bikos, Dykhouse, Boutin, Gowen, & Rodney, 2013). The quantitative approaches constitute 53 %.…”