ABSTRACT
Few would argue that the primary goal of career counseling is to help individuals make the best vocational choices possible. As counselors seek to foster optimal career development and choice making, they seek to help clients to avoid making decisions that will lead them down unproductive, disappointing, or otherwise unsatisfying paths. The goal, in brief, is to help individuals identify, obtain, and achieve in career pathways that satisfy their particular characteristics and circumstances. What do we-the vocational psychologists, the theorists, and the researchers-have to offer toward this goal?
