Advancing the career counseling profession: Objectives and strategies for the next decade

This article discusses the 9 analyses of the career Counseling profession's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that appear in this September 2003 special issue of ne Career Development Quarterly. The author identifies points of convergence, proposes a mission statement, and summarizes what career counselors seem intent on doing in the coming years. The analysts recommended that the career counseling profession concentrate on 8 objectives: advancing theory that is more holistic, contextual, and multicultural; using accumulated research more effectivly; focusing focusing new research on the career Counseling process; exploiting technology to construct new tools; ameliorating career Counseling training; expanding the National Career Development Association's role; increasing advocacy about public policy; and fostering the international growth of the profession.