ABSTRACT
Adler’s Individual Psychology oers a perspective on vocational development that enriches the classic career-counseling model. e present chapter contains an elaboration of this assertion and a presentation of methods and materials that career counselors can use to bring the Adlerian perspective to their work. e chapter begins with a review of the strengths and weaknesses of the most widely used approach to career counseling: matching persons to occupations. What follows is a discussion of four ways in which Adler’s Individual Psychology elaborates this matching model to be more useful to counselors. e remaining two thirds of the chapter contain a presentation of Individual Psychology materials and methods specically designed for Adlerian career counseling or, more precisely, career-style counseling. e presentation of career-style counseling is divided into three sections. e rst section consists of a description of a structured interview that counselors use to collect data about a client’s career style; the second section holds ideas on how counselors think about these data to assess the client’s career style; and the third section contains a description of a model for career-style counseling.
