ABSTRACT
Career counseling interventions with mental health clients include activities such as clarifying values, determining interests, imparting world-of-work information and resources, setting career goals, and providing coaching about how to achieve them. Counselors who offer these services do so in concert with the mental health services they provide and when career-related needs arise as a focus of treatment. In formulating career interventions, the counselor should keep in mind that vocational development is a normal developmental process. Counselors must strive to discover the factors that interfere with the normal process of career development. As mental health counseling progresses, clients can try new behaviors in the workplace if they are employed and risk fresh behaviors in the job search process if they are not. Both types of clients can benefit from implementation of a new self-concept, redefinition of workplace roles, and personal change management.
