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The Next Decade in Career Counseling: Cocoon Maintenance or Metamorphosis?
Author(s) -
Parmer Twinet,
Rush Lee Covington
Publication year - 2003
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.2161-0045.2003.tb00624.x
Subject(s) - strengths and weaknesses , career counseling , career development , counseling psychology , metaphor , psychology , counselor education , cognitive information processing , career portfolio , medical education , engineering ethics , pedagogy , applied psychology , medicine , political science , higher education , social psychology , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , law
The authors, using a cocoon maintenance or metamorphosis metaphor, articulate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and future vision for career counseling. Major strengths in career counseling include the growth and development of career theory, research, and practice. Weaknesses are identified in terms of career counseling practices that maintain localized career standards. Opportunities exist for the profession to assist clients in redefining their careers on the basis of ownership and life stories. The continued devaluation of career counseling in counselor education programs is seen as a threat. The authors conclude with their vision for the future for the discipline and profession of career counseling.