Western Vocational Guidance Theory Development

Theories of Career Guidance in developed countries have a long history of a hundred years. Study on this developmental course of them is necessary for establishing our own theory. This paper is to reveal the motivation and trends of theories of Career Guidance in the Western, by the clue of the classic theories of Career Guidance, which is different from other relevant research. This article includes five sections. In the first section, the value of this study is introduced. In the second section, some relevant issues on this subject are commented. In the third section, characteristics of theories of Career Guidance in different periods are described. A profound analysis on the motivation of theories of Career Guidance are given, that the unity of opposites of man-career has promoted the development of theories of Career Guidance in the fourth section. Finally, some developmental trends of theories of Career Guidance are revealed.