Counselling career journals

Those of us who work as career counsellors are trained career development professionals who walk alongside our clients as they develop self-awareness, awareness of opportunities, explore how they may transition between roles or skills, and make decisions about their careers (Law & Watts, 1977; Lent & Brown, 2021). We will see many of clients kanohi ki te kanohi (one to one); although younger people at a school or university may see a career educator in groups as well as singly. 

While there are a range of open access or free career development journals publishing in this specialty which I have explored earlier in this series - CJCD; CDI; NICEC; APCDA (see here for more details); there are also some additional journals which have not yet been mentioned but relate to the counselling specialty.

Those additional career counselling journals are:

• Firstly, the African Journal of Career Development or AJCD (which is the same as the Australian journal initials) here. This is completely open access, and publishes research on the African continent with an eye to decent work.
• Then we have the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance or IAEVG. This is a for profit journal, hosted on the Springer Link site, here. Some articles are open access (but not all), and articles within the journal can be searched here.
• Next there is the Journal of Career Development is a for-profit journal, hosted by SAGE, here, but has a number of early publication articles which tend to be open access. This journal tends to focus more on the career education end of career counselling (it was formerly known as the "Journal of Career Education"), but it does cover the entire specialty.
• Then there is the Journal of British Guidance and Counselling (BJGC), here. This is a Taylor and Francis journal which also offers some early publication submissions as open access articles.
• We now move onto Work and Occupations, which is also a for-profit journal hosted by SAGE: here. This too has a number of early publication articles which tend to be open access. The journal focuses on work attitudes, behaviours, and dynamics; ER; LMI; globalisation and migration; career networks, OSH, OCM; transitions and working in later life; diversity and discrimination.
• Like the previous two, the Journal of Counselling and Development has some early publication articles which are open access here. However, this particular journal is hosted by for-profit publication house, Wiley.
• Another Wiley publication is the Journal of Employment Counseling, here. Again, early publication submissions may be open access.
• Although coaching and mentoring really should be a specialty, I will include the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring (IJEBCM), here for now. This journal is fully open access
• The Journal of Counselling Psychology has a VERY few free articles here. This is definitely a journal where we generally have to pay. 

As we can see there are a lot of potentially free journals to read articles from, even if our pockets are not deep.

Sam

References:

Law, B. & Watts, A. G. (1977). Schools, Careers and Community: A study of some approaches to careers education in schools. Church Information Office.

Lent, R. W., & Brown, S. D. (2021). Chapter 1: Career Development and Counseling: An Introduction. In S. D. Brown & R. W. Lent (Eds.), Career Development and Counseling: Putting theory and research to work (3rd ed., pp. 1-30). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.