Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development-2011

The Career Development Quarterly celebrated its 100th anniversary during the past year and continues to provide high-quality research and conceptual articles of import to the study of career development and intervention. This article reviews the 2011 career counseling and development literature to highlight advances in theory, assessment, and intervention presented within the following themes: (a) from the past to the future, (b) work and well-being, (c) diversity and career, (d) career theory and concepts, (e) career assessment, (f) career intervention, (g) career development: life-span perspectives, and (h) international perspectives.Happy 100th anniversary, The Career Development Quarterly (CDQ)\ Over the past century, CDQhzs provided high-quality research and conceptual articles highlighting trends and innovations in career counseling and development; 2011 was no different. For the past 23 years, CDQ has published an annual review of the career counseling and development extant literature from major career journals. Ostensibly, these annual reviews seek to review and integrate wide-ranging topics within conceptual categories meant to capture and consolidate the information in a reader- friendly format.Providing comprehensive coverage of the career development literature for any given year is a daunting task. We originally accessed full text versions of six prominent career development journals: CDQ International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Journal of Career Assessment, Journal of Career Development, Journal of Employment Counseling, and Journal of Vocational Behavior (JVB). We also reviewed topically relevant published articles in another 1 1 counseling and psychology journals that, from time to time, publish career-related articles: Adultspan, American Psychologist, The Counseling Psychologist, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of College Counseling, Journal of Counseling & Development, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, Professional School Counseling, and Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin. Thus, our screening process involved more than 500 articles across 17 journals and resulted in the selection of more than 160 published articles for review and explication. The scope of this review was intended to be broad and representative of the diverse literature published last year, while at the same time providing concise synopses of the most relevant topics and articles. Unfortunately, space limitations do not allow for a total or comprehensive census of all relevant articles, so several hundred sources were not included in this qualitative metastudy of 2011 articles.Following the tradition of previous annual review authors, we sought to address the overarching question, "How can the research published last year be useful to counselors?" (Hartung, 2010, p. 101). Also, unless otherwise noted, the citations provided in this article are 201 1; the date was dropped because of the convention prominent in previous annual reviews. This article reviews and highlights advances in the 201 1 career counseling and development literature organized within the following themes: (a) from the past to the future, (b) work and well-being, (c) diversity and career, (d) career theory and concepts, (e) career assessment, (f) career intervention, (g) career development: life-span perspectives, and (h) international perspectives. It goes without saying that many of the articles could have been reviewed under several categories, and, as with any scholarly endeavor, it is incumbent upon the reader to apply the information herein in an integrative manner. To reduce redundancy of content and simplify the complex interplay of the 201 1 career counseling and development literature, we chose to review each selected article and fit it within one of the primary categories.From the Past to the FutureProfessional issues abound in the career development field, and a case could be made that all articles selected for this annual review reflect important professional issues. …