ABSTRACT
Modern vocational counseling is now an established professional specialty, with all the customary marks of professional identification: advanced university degrees, professional associations, and scholarly journals. The chief significance of the rise of therapeutic counseling is that it involves the recognition that work adjustment is not simply a logical-rational process that might be managed more efficiently by the large-scale use of electronic computers. It is fair to say that the group methods have a more obvious function in adapting people to the world of work than they may have where the focus of attention is on other kinds of intrapsychic difficulties. In the rehabilitative workshop, it is the entire work environment that "speaks" to the client and with which the client is encouraged to interact. The techniques of adjusting people to work have developed in two directions since the early 1950s, when they first started taking shape.
