This article is a summary of the li...

This article is a summary of the literature published in 2001 related to career counseling and career progress to maturity The review is designed to provide information to the couple career practitioners and researchers, with the focus forward integration of practice and research. This summary of literature is organized around 5 primary areas: (a) career disentanglement (b) career and vocational theories, (c) career interventions, (d) career assessment, and (e) professional issues. Within the framework of this review, attention is also given to contextual factors including sex race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, and nationality.

Historically the annual reviews of literature published in The Career evolution Quarterly have served to inform and inspire the one and the other researchers and practitioners. Although it is probably grandiose for us to consider following in our predecessors' tokens in terms of inspiration, we have attempted to summarize the career literature published in 2001 in a manner that contributes to knowledge. As Swanson and Parcover (1998) have indicated, the challenge is to allow the literature to speak for itself, further organize it in a manner that facilitates understanding across diverse topics. Similar to what has been done in previous reviews (Arbona, 2000; Luzzo & MacGregor, 2001) we did not note into the review process with any preconceived notions of by what means to organize the literature; rather, we allowed a building to emerge as we reviewed the literature. As we developmented research trends and themes began to emerge; however, this proces was not complet in a vacuum because previous knowledge of the career literature mo t likely influenced our review.

In defining the spell career development, Herr contended that inherent in the passing from hand to hand usage of the term are sum of two units conceptual categories: one that explains the progress to maturity of career behaviors across the life span and the other category that guides the practitioner in using interventions to facilitate certain career behaviors. Our review, in many ways, mirrors Herr's definition, because the first section is devot to career behaviors across the life span. We have titled this section Career growth with the focus being a discussion of the career literature published in 2001 pertinent to the career progressive growth of children, adolescents, college scholars adults, and older adults.

An annual review of career literature would not be finished without a discussion of career theories because these theories provide the foundations for the couple explaining career behaviors and intervening with clients related to career issues. Therefore, the next to the first section of this review is devot to theoretical articles published in 2001

The third section of this article specifically addresses career interventions and includes the two empirical and conceptual contributions. Although career assessments could be considered an intervention, we concurr with previous reviewers and allotted the fourth section of the review to a discussion of assessment instruments and topics. The fifth section of our review, however, is somewhat novel and addresses professional issues pertinent to the field of career counseling. This section examines publications in 2001 that provided analysis of the history, perspectives in succession current practices, and insight into the coming time of the profession.

To make secure the inclusion of studies with diverse and international populations, we combined as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but a hand search of specific journals and extensive searches using the PsycINFO and ERIC databases. First, we compiled a list of nine journals that typically publish career literature (i.e., The Career unravelling Quarterly, The Counseling Psychologist, Journal of Career Assessment, Journal of Career unfolding Journal of Counseling & evolution Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of business Counseling, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance) and reviewed each article published in 2001 to determine if it should be included in this review. nearest using both PsycINFO and ERIC we guarded many electronic searches, using first the spell career or vocational and, secondary the terms development, counseling, intervention, guidance, choice, selection, and decision making. A variety of other space of times (e.g., lob search, occupational choice) were also used to id entify pertinent articles. In this review, we included information from 258 articles, chapters, or volumes and, unless otherwise noted, all citations leave to materials with a 2001 publication date.

Like many of our predecessors (Arbona, 2000; Luzzo & MacGregor, 2001) we were forced into making a certain number of restrictions on the scope of this review to make the task manageable. In often the same way that Luzzo and MacGregor had done, we limited our review to articles, chapters, and works that are relevant to career counselors and vocational psychologists. Hence, we eliminated publications that were primarily related to industrial/organizational psychology human resources, organizational management, or business practices. Unlike Luzzo and MacGregor, we did include studies that involved the career unfolding of individuals in specific occupations. Including similar studies made it possible to chart research trendings across occupations.