ABSTRACT
Many career counselors are understandably squearnish about the prominent role that computers have come to play in the career counseling process. Vendor exhibits at counseling conventions bristle with computer hardware and software while conference program agendas are laden with the acronyms that we in the profession have come to identify with computer-assisted career guidance (CACG). Despite the increasingly high profile of computer usage within the profession, the questions persist. Is it reasonable and humane to utilize machines to deliver that most human of all services-counseling? It is sensible and advantageous to adrninister assessment devices and simulations by computer? Is computer-assisted career guidance really guidance or is it merely a cover for information storage and retrieval? If, indeed, computers are capable of establishing relationships with clients, aren't those relationships dehumanizing, shallow, substitutes for real therapeutic relationships-a sort of Pac Man therapy?
