MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.

A literature review was conducted to identify factors leading to career indecision among adolescents and college students and to examine existing programs designed to assist such ' students in selecting careers. According to the literature, many practitioners view career indecision as a normal task of development whereas others see indecision as related to serious psychological problems such as anxiety, self-perceptual difficulties, and externalized attributions. Several rf those theories that postulate career indecision as a normal t of the development were reviewed. One of those theories, which views the decision-making process as extending oVer the individual's lifetime and as being composed of a period of anticipation and a period of implementation and adjustment, was used as the basis for the development of the following three goals for those individuals assisting students in the career decision-makin