Career Counseling aims to link the past and the present, and to look to the future for significant developments in this critical field. Seven current methods are examined in detail:

* the Trait-and-Factor approach

* the Person-Centered approach

* the Psychodynamic approach

* the Developmental approach

* the Social Learning approach

* the Social Psychological approach

* Computer Assisted Career Counseling

Written to inform practicing vocational counselors and students about the practical and applied aspects of various counseling approaches, this book will help them maintain a data-based objectivity.