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A Follow‐Up of Adult Career Counseling Clients of a University Extension Center
Author(s) -
Healy Charles C.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2001.tb00963.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , career counseling , center (category theory) , psychology , medical education , counseling psychology , cognitive information processing , extension (predicate logic) , career development , family medicine , medicine , clinical psychology , chemistry , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language , crystallography
An unannounced, telephone follow‐up evaluation of 181 out‐of‐school adults who had enrolled in 1 of 2 programs of individual career counseling at a university extension center indicated that 78% were satisfied or very satisfied. Eighty‐five percent reported that they were following through on their counseling in a variety of ways, including pursuing further education (35%) and changing jobs or occupations (14%). Satisfaction was not related at a statistically significant level to completion of their allotted counseling interviews, program, gender, or education level. The discussion considers the implications for offering career counseling to adults and for future research.