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Article: The next decade in career counseling: cocoon maintenance or metamorphosis?(Career Counseling in the Next Decade)
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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The authors, using a cocoon maintenance or metamorphosis metaphor, articulate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and future vision for career counseling. Major strengths in career counseling include the growth and development of career theory, research, and practice. Weaknesses are identified in terms of career counseling practices that maintain localized career standards. Opportunities exist for the profession to assist clients in redefining their careers on the basis of ownership and life stories. The continued devaluation of career counseling in counselor education programs is seen as a threat. The authors conclude with their vision for the future for ...