Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—2004

✍ Scribed by Mary H. Guindon; Lee J. Richmond

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-4019
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2005.tb00145.x

✦ Synopsis

This article reviews professional literature published in 2004 related to career counseling and career development. The literature is divided into 4 broad areas: professional issues, career theory and concepts, career interventions and practice, and career assessment and technology. The authors summarize and discuss the implications of the findings for career counseling practice and research.

The annual review organizes the past year's professional career literature and presents a comprehensive summary of works from which the career researcher and practitioner can learn. We admire those who have gone before us in undertaking this project. Not until we were well into it did we realize what a responsibility it is and how overwhelming a task! Our challenge, as it has been for our predecessors, was to allow significant themes as well as unique voices to emerge from the literature and to summarize them in a concise manner that is meaningful for career researchers and practitioners alike. Because the topic of career counseling and development is addressed by many disciplines similar to our own, it is impossible to include every published work that might inform practice. Our search was not exhaustive. To be succinct means that some arbitrary decisions were made about what to include in the discussions that follow. For example, we have not included books, monographs, dissertations, or online articles that appeared in 2004. Ultimately, we chose to include in this review 173 articles published in refereed professional journals in 2004. We conducted a hand search and read articles published in the major American career journals: