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Career Planning Inventories: "Do-It-Yourself" Won't Do
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Brown, Stephen J. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1975
This article explores the practical difficulties encountered in using self-administering, self-scoring, and self-interpreting career guidance instruments with students who have white-collar aspirations and blue-collar histories. After dramatizing and summarizing the problems, the author describes a model for successful use of one such…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Counseling Services, Guidance Programs
A Multimethod Assessment of Holland's Congruency: The Expectancy and Multidimensional Scaling Routes.
Mazen, A. Magid – 1984
Holland's (1973) theory of vocational choice proposes a typology of, and a match between, people and occupations. The Self Directed Search (SDS) can be used to assess people's occupational orientation types. To assess the construct validity of Holland's theory of occupational preferences, 171 female industrial workers participated in a study,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Multidimensional Scaling, Personality Traits
Planning for the Vocational Implications of Head Trauma.
Sauer, G. C., Jr.; And Others – 1984
A model using career interest test results and career specific information to formulate vocational recommendations was tested on four head trauma patients who had been involved in car or motorcycle accidents at least 2 years before. As part of a psychological evaluation, patients completed the Self Directed Search (SDS), the Adjective Checklist…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Case Studies, Counselor Role, Head Injuries