Counseling for Second Careers.

Autor/in	Wilcox, Paula
Titel	Counseling for Second Careers.
Quelle	(1978), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Counseling; Adult Learning; Adult Students; Age Differences; Career Change; Career Choice; College Role; Community Colleges; Literature Reviews; Occupational Mobility; Social Influences; Socioeconomic Influences; Student Personnel Services; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Community college; Community College; Berufliche Mobilität; Sozialer Einfluss; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	This literature review focuses on the role of the community college in meeting the needs of adults seeking assistance in mid-life career changes. Factors such as longer life spans, better health, increased leisure time, and greater emphasis upon the quality of life increase the need for mid-life vocational counseling, leisure counseling programs, widow/widowers counseling, and pre-retirement workshops, as well as, the need for availability of lifelong educational opportunities. Family, job, and societal pressures can be seen to interact and produce four career patterns: routine (absence of career change), self-determined (career change because of desire rather than necessity), situationally determined (change brought about by outside pressures), and self-directed accommodation (change influenced by environmental pressures but shaped by individual choice). An assessment of the career pattern involved is one of the first steps in finding a second career, and one in which community college counseling programs should play a part. The effective accomplishment of the educational and counseling goals of a college requires the provision of services that meet the special needs and abilities of adult students, the organization of services into a pattern that is compatible with the character of the college, and the administration of services in ways that are mutually supportive. (A bibliography is included.) (MB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01