Mary sue Richardson

• New York University

Counseling for work and relationship is a social constructionist perspective, informed by feminist and social justice values, and responsive to radical changes in contemporary lives, that fosters a shift in vocational psychology from helping people develop careers to helping people construct lives through work and relationship. The first and major...

This rejoinder to the three reactions papers by Blustein (2012), Byars-Winston (2012), and Lent (2012) focuses first on the issue of what is old and what is new about the counseling for work and relationship perspective. This includes the issue of holism, the influence of contextualism, and the designation of new categories and a new discourse for...

Counselling for work and relationship is proposed as another way of thinking about vocational psychology and vocational guidance. It can contribute to the search for a new paradigm for these fields. Central to this way of thinking are two shifts. A shift from a discourse about career to a discourse about work, and a shift to expand the focus of att...

In contrast to traditional theories of career development that focus on decision-making processes in relation to market work, [Richardson, M. S. (2004). The emergence of new intentions in subjective experience: A social/personal constructionist and relational understanding. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 64, 485–498], informed by social constructi...

As part of the larger project to revision vocational psychology for a new era, a process referred to as the emergence of new intentions in subjective experience is defined and described. It is proposed that this process is central to the ongoing construction and reconstruction of lives in the changing landscape of the times. Following an elaboratio...

This article discusses the challenge of contextualism to developmental theory as articulated by Lewis (1997), as well as the challenge of current changes in life contexts for developmentally oriented counseling practice. Counseling practice refers to activities of psychologists and counselors in relation to theory, research, and intervention, and i...

Comments on articles by S. D. Phillips et al (see record 2001-00036-001), D. E. Palladino Schultheiss et al (see record 2001-00036-002), and D. L. Blustein et al (see record 2001-00036-003) regarding the effects of interpersonal influences on career decision making and development and the overlap between work and interpersonal relations. It is s...

This response to the articles by M. J. Patton, D. M. Kivlighan, and K. D. Multon and C. J. Gelso, D. M. Kivlighan, B. Wine, A. Jones, and S. C. Friedman (see records 84-23832, and 23827, respectively) focuses on the significance and timeliness of these studies, elements of an emerging model for counseling research, the current context of psychoanal...

false splits: the problem of career counseling / toward a healing of false splits [normal vs pathological, splits of the person, split between the public and private] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

The comments by M. L. Savickas and H. E. A. Tinsley in response to my article, "Work in People's Lives: A Location for Counseling Psychologists" (M. S. Richardson, 1993), are useful in elaborating the originally proposed ideas and in raising a number of critical issues and concerns. In this reply, I respond briefly to major points raised by each of...

Discusses concepts of agency and free will from the perspective of clinical practice and feminism. Following a definition of agency that locates it in a relational context (i.e., agency/empowerment), the problematized nature of subjective experience is explored from both a feminist and a psychoanalytic perspective. These considerations set the stag...

Comments on the agency papers by B. D. Slife (see record 1995-13451-001), M. Gergen (see record 1995-14294-001), R. N. Williams (see record 1995-12851-001), and G. S. Howard (see record 1995-13446-001). In response to these papers, M. S. Richardson states that the construct of agency/empowerment is replaced with embodied empowerment, the idea o...

The career development–vocational psychology literature has been marked by 2 persistent problems: a slow response to new developments in basic areas of psychology, such as developmental psychology, and a lack of representation of populations other than White and middle-class groups as research participants or as foci of theoretical explanation. Aft...

The decision to present articles celebrating the centennial of the American Psychological Association (APA) in issues of the Journal of Counseling Psychology throughout the year has had one major unintended, but we hope fortuitous, outcome. This outcome demands a more open exposure of our editorial process of conceptualizing, commissioning, and ed...

With this issue, we inaugurate the first in a series of four articles that represent the response of the Journal of Counseling Psychology to the celebration of the centennial of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1992. The centennial of the APA provides a unique opportunity to critically examine the relationship of counseling psycholo...

A national survey of counseling psychology training programs indicates the increasing significance of American Psychological Association approval status and the changing nature of the job market for recent graduates. Most programs are active and expanding.

The purpose of this study was to develop a list of stressful events associated with onset of parenting, and to rank the events and establish weights in a way that reflects the degree of disruption that would be caused should that event occur. Whether the rankings and weightings differ as a function of parent sex and maternal work status was also co...

This article examines sources of tension in teaching the psychology of women. The essential conflict is a clash of values between the traditional academic setting and a revolutionary, nontraditional curriculum area. The first major source of conflict identified involves the knowledge base of the field and includes debate over the definition of the...

Presents the following 4 basic assumptions behind a conceptual framework of parenting: Major social roles provide the basic structure of the adult life experience. Occupational and familial roles are the major life roles for adults in society. Work and intimacy are processes that occur in both occupational and familial roles. Gender, race, and clas...

Assessed differences in the salience of early parenting stress dimensions according to specific demographic characteristics. Parenting is viewed as a stressful life event that is likely to entail wide individual variation in the perception of stress. Using an individual differences multidimensional scaling method with 38 parents (27–39 yrs old), 4...

In seven articles, addresses parenting issues within social and cultural contexts. Overviews values placed on parenting and presents a conceptual framework considering the intersection of occupational and family roles across life cycles. Reviews effects of parenting throughout the adult life cycle, discusses emerging theoretical models, and parent...

A Role Perception Scale utilizing a combined projective-objective methodology was developed to assess female and male perceptions of each of three single roles — work, marriage, and parent — and two combined roles — work-marriage and work-parent. Research participants were 134 college students, 88 females and 46 males. Factor analysis of the object...

This study concerns women's and men's perceptions of five roles and role combinations: worker, spouse, parent, worker-spouse, and worker-parent. Undergraduates wrote stories to relevant projective cues. A variation of the Thematic Apperception Test was used. Protocols were coded for degree of (a) conflict, (b) positive outcome, and (c) positive aff...

In contrast to the more traditional focus on parental effects on the child, research and theory on the effects of parenting on parents are considered. Following delineation of significant demographic trends affecting family composition and structure and a critical review of family stage theory, research on the effects of parenting within each of fi...

This paper describes the Project for Training Counselors of Women, a project designed to identify existing innovative practices and curriculum models for training counselors of women. A history and rationale for the project is followed by a presentation of six selected models, with names and addresses of model developers included in the appendices....

The study was designed to investigate perception of conflict and outcome across women's roles. A variation of the Thematic Apperception Test was used. Female graduate students (N = 93) wrote stories to three pictorial cues. Each cue depicted women in a role: girl friend/wife role, worker role, mother role. The 279 protocols (93 Ss X 3 cues = 279) w...

The study was designed to investigate marriage, work, and motherhood role perceptions of 93 adult women who were mostly graduate students at a large urban university. A secondary purpose was to examine the interaction of age‐role status variables and role perceptions. Three pictorial protective cues, each with a single role stimulus demand, were us...

Two studies, the second essentially a replication of the first, were conducted to clarify the meaning of vocational maturity in female career development. The sample consisted of 55 college women in the first study and 145 women in the second study. Correlational analysis examined the relationship of vocational maturity, using the Career Maturity A...

Examined the relationship of 97 college women's self-concepts and role concepts to 9 career orientation variables. Ss were senior class women representing a variety of majors. Data were collected by mailed questionnaires which included a self- and role concept instrument, Eyde's Desire to Work Scale, and other locally devised career orientation mea...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the meaning of the construct, career orientation. Fourteen presumed measures of career orientation as well as Super's Work Values Inventory were administered to college women. Analysis of the relationships among these variables identified two relatively independent clusters. The first cluster most closely ap...