Integrating Leisure Guidance into a Career Counseling Center

Although career guidance and counseling has been and continues to be focused principally upon work-related occupations, a reformula-tion of the concept of career has been struggling for recognition since the decade of the 1960s (Gysbers, 1984). This expanded perspective views career as involving a person’s total life style of which work occupations are but a segment. They are an important segment, to be sure, but still only one of the many roles and activities engaged in that constitute a person’s career (Gysbers & Moore, 1975, 1981; Su-per, 1980, 1984). This broader view of career received a substantial endorsement i