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The authors investigated how negotiating two cultural expectations may influence the career decision-making process of Chinese youth. In-depth interviews were conducted with 8 participants addressing issues of role models, career interests, and individuals with whom they discussed career concerns. Consensual Qualitative Research (C. E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, & E. N. Williams, 1997) was used to analyze data. The findings suggest that parents' academic and career expectations influenced the career decisions of Chinese youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, counseling practice has emphasized understanding the inner subjective experiences (ISE) of counseling clientele. In the last several decades, however, the counseling profession has gradually devalued ISE. In this article, the author traces this devaluation of ISE in counseling. Underlying professional motives for the decline of interest in ISE are proposed, and reasons that ISE must be revalued are specified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the author reviews the history of Frederic Kuder's work in interest measurement and the development of two of his interest inventories currently in use — the Kuder General Interest Survey and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey. Features of the inventories ' most recent editions are discussed, emphasizing those that distinguish them from other popular interest measures. In addition, a third-generation Kuder inventory is briefly described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Milton H. Erickson's approach to clinical hypnosis has recently attracted the attention of many professional counselors. Although traditional hypnotherapy presumes the induction and utilization of trace, some of Erickson's hypnotherapeutic principles can be easily translated into the general framework of counseling. This article examines several basic techniques of Ericson that are applicable to four aspects of counseling: (a) rapport building, (b) problem assessment, (c) resistance management, and (d) behavior change. Clinical examples and discussion are provided for illustration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) was showing great evocative validity during career counseling, decades-long predictive validity, and wide relational fertility, opening the door to theories describing the social mechanisms that bring about an assortative mating between individuals and occupational fates when, out of the blue, the SVIB was suppressed. First the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) and then today's Strong Interest Inventory (SII) were offered as its increasingly inadequate replacements. Apparently, sales had replaced science as the value guiding the changes made with each new test. Even so, why the classic SVIB was made the object of a book-burning by a university press remains an inexplicable atrocity. Can this outrage be now, belatedly, undone? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is informed that a major subset of the "evaluation industry" in the U.S. involves the assessment of people-- their skills, interests and personalities. At least 3.5 million persons take interest inventories annually. Catalogs describing a multitude of available personality inventories constitute a large part of the mail received by human services providers. Ever since the Chinese began using competitive examinations to evaluate government officials in about 2200 B.C., an enormous amount of professional effort has gone into studies designed to learn how to construct and use such instruments to assess people accurately, consistently and appropriately. A great deal of research has been conducted to determine what type of data gathering-- self report, interview or assessment instrument-- is most effective. Unfortunately, results of these studies have been mixed. It is opined that although tests are not the only way to obtain information about people, they are perhaps the best researched.