A model for career counseling for spouses of relocated employees emphasizes job search tools, resources, and emotional support rather than job placement assistance. Cooperation and support from the employer are essential to the model's success. (SK)

Spouse relocation counseling is a prime example of the interrelationship between a client's career development and mental health counseling needs. Understanding and responding to trailing spouses in terms of mental health and career development needs is vital to serving this special population. (Author)

International spouse relocation poses significant challenges for counselors. Critical elements of support programs are (1) sensitivity to relocation's effects on the family; (2) job search assistance for spouses; and (3) effective repatriation programs. (SK)

The effects of family migration (1) are negative for employment status, weeks worked, and earnings, null for weeks unemployed, and marginal for attitudes; (2) are similar for married women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s; and (3) do not last beyond the first or second year after a move. (Author/RM)

Data from 204 female faculty or faculty wives show that family life cycle (number and ages of children) and family migration significantly affect wives' employment status. Only extremely highly educated women initiate family relocation. (SK)

Relocation of dual career families often translates into career advancement for the spouse whose job prospects initiate the move and career disruption for the spouse who follows. To describe the relocation concerns of men and women in dual career marriages, 32 professional couples were interviewed. Half the sample were black and half were white,…

Relocation caused by employment transfers may favorably affect the attainment of career and financial goals; however, it is experienced as a stressful situation by many families and may create traumas for individual family members. If variables can be isolated that contribute to a family's adjustment to a new community, coping strategies may be…

Forty employer organizations granted interviews to discuss the status of their spouse employment assistance programs, motivation for the programs, and implementation experiences. Representatives of 21 relocation consulting and research organizations supplied information on the rationale for the services they offer, ways employers use their…

Role satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and self-esteem of married graduate students were assessed with eight couples who relocated and eight couples who did not when one partner began graduate studies. Half of the couples were participants in the Couples in Transition Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The couples were…

Stresses experienced by eight married couples when the husband is entering graduate school (Couples in Transition Project) were compared to stresses felt by eight couples who recently gave birth to their first child (Becoming a Family Project). Both projects were based at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, eight couples who were…