The Melbourne Marriage Guidance Council

“Unpublished research is nothing but vulgar curiosity.”¹ These words, especially in relation to social work research, demand to be taken seriously. Thus we now present the findings and implications arising out of a small survey which was undertaken in Brisbane in 1964.² This study was aimed primarily to focus on the felt and observed needs of haemophiliacs and their families, especially their psychosocial needs. Arising out of this was the secondary goal of trying to relate these to what is already known and formulated about the genetic and medical aspects of the disease.     

The Internationalization of Educational and Vocational Guidance

The authors identify and discuss the main themes from the discourse on the internationalization of educational and vocational guidance at the 2004 Symposium on International Perspectives on Career Development, cosponsored by the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance and the National Career Development Association. Participants from 46 countries discussed international perspectives on and comparative features of educational and vocational guidance. They concentrated on issues of designing and adapting models, methods, and materials for career education and counseling. Three additional themes revolved around the importance of public policy initiatives, training enough practitioners to meet the growing international need for career services, and the promise of information technology for expanding the delivery of educational and vocational guidance and for supporting career counselors.     

Trends in the History of Vocational Guidance

In this article, the relationships between vocational guidance and vocational education, employment counseling, career guidance, and career counseling are explored. Also examined are the wide‐ranging federal and state policies that have stimulated and shaped the professional history of vocational guidance, vocational policy, and contemporary terms.     

Salmagundi: Early Thoughts on Vocational Guidance

Howard V. Davis, professor of Counselor Education, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, came across the following selections while doing research into contributions of Hugo Münsterberg pertinent to vocational guidance. Davis identified the author as follows: Hugo Münsterberg, born and educated in Germany and brought to Harvard University in the 1890s by William James to develop the psychological laboratory there, is generally credited with being the father of industrial and applied psychology. His development of vocational tests and his work with the practical selection of workers for various occupations helped to produce some of the important principles of personnel selection and of vocational guidance.     

Vocational Guidance Requests Within the International Scene

This article summarizes the work of a diverse group of researchers and practitioners from 5 continents on “Vocational Guidance Requests Within the International Scene” presented in the discussion group at a symposium of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance, the Society for Vocational Psychology, and the National Career Development Association, in Padua, Italy. The role of societal and cultural forces in individuals' vocational decisions, the need to serve a larger percentage of the population with vocational guidance services, and suggestions to address these challenges in the field of vocational guidance were addressed.