Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—2005

✍ Scribed by Thomas F. Harrington; Theresa A. Harrigan

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 401 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-4019
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2006.tb00010.x

✦ Synopsis

This article reviews professional literature published in 2005 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.

Writing this review provided constant discovery. The career field is large, diverse, and specialized, and authors who contributed articles came from around the world. In fact, our search identified 40 education journals that included career articles but were not used in this review to enable us to concentrate on constructs central to the field. We followed the structure of the major topics within the four general areas that previous annual reviews adopted: professional issues, career theory and concepts, career interventions and practice, and career assessment and technology. These four areas provide continuity with previous annual reviews. The quantification process of key concepts that we adopted led to a weighting of topics and the eventual subheadings used in writing. Some articles covering several topics were integrated into a broader area to permit a more comprehensive treatment of a subject. Other articles were not included in the review. Eventually, we selected 190 articles. We hand-searched the major career journals published in the United States: