Research
Our research focuses on the practical application of career assistance in peoples' lives. People spend an enormous amount of time in their jobs and being affected by issues of work. Our research seeks to explain how they can engage career, work, and their overall lives more effectively. I hope that the work we do can inform career counselors how to better work with clients from college students, unemployed adults, active military & Veterans, offenders, working community members, and those dealing with various mental illnesses.
Specifically, my program of research focuses on career interests, career assessment, career decision-making, career thinking, and career self efficacy. Most of this work is filtered through the perspective of Holland's RIASEC theory and the Cognitive Information Processing Approach, which are also the perspectives from which I train our graduate students to practice and conduct research.
Visit my research team, team's alumni, and conferences pages to learn more. My vita details recent publications and presentations associated with our work!
Open Access Books out in 2023 and 2024 focused on CIP and Holland's Theory!
Cognitive Information Processing: Career Theory, Research and Practice
Specifically, my program of research focuses on career interests, career assessment, career decision-making, career thinking, and career self efficacy. Most of this work is filtered through the perspective of Holland's RIASEC theory and the Cognitive Information Processing Approach, which are also the perspectives from which I train our graduate students to practice and conduct research.
Visit my research team, team's alumni, and conferences pages to learn more. My vita details recent publications and presentations associated with our work!
Open Access Books out in 2023 and 2024 focused on CIP and Holland's Theory!
Cognitive Information Processing: Career Theory, Research and Practice
Coming in June 2024!
Holland's RIASEC Hexagon: A Paradigm for Life and Work Decisions
By Emily Bullock Yowell and Robert C. Reardon
Holland's RIASEC Hexagon: A Paradigm for Life and Work Decisions
By Emily Bullock Yowell and Robert C. Reardon