Frederick Leong is Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, USA. Dr Mark M. Leach is at University of Louisville, USA.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I History and Professional Development: An occupational analysis of counseling psychology: how special is the speciality?, Louise F. Fitzgerald and Samuel H. Osipow; Counseling psychology - the most broadly based applied psychology speciality, Allen E. Ivey; Looking to the future: themes from the 3rd National Conference for Counseling Psychology, Stephanie S. Rude, Michael Weissberg and George M. Gazda; Transition from vocational guidance to counseling psychology, Donald E. Super; Trend analyses of major contributions in The Counseling Psychologist cited from 1986-1996: impact and implications Lisa Y. Flores, S. Craig Rooney, P. Paul Heppner; LaVonne Douglas Browne and Mei-Fen Wei; 30 years of The Counseling Psychologist: 1969-1999, P. Paul Heppner; Behold our creation! What counseling psychology has become and might yet become, George S. Howard. Part II Personal Counseling: Rational-emotive therapy: research data that supports the clinical and personality hypotheses of RET and other models of cognitive-behavior therapy, Albert Ellis; A psychodynamic view of counseling psychology, Edward S. Bordin; Components of the psychotherapy relationship: their interaction and unfolding during treatment, Charles J. Gelso and Jean A. Carter; The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change, Carl R. Rogers; Change processes in counseling and psychotherapy, Stanley R. Strong and Ronald P. Matross. Part III Career Counseling: The meaning of work in women's lives: a sociopsychological model of career choice and work behavior, Helen S. Astin; Megatrends and milestones in vocational behavior: a 20-year counseling psychology retrospective, Fred H. Borgen; A taxonomy of difficulties in career decision making, Itamar Gati, Mina Krausz and Samuel H. Osipow; A theory of vocational choice, John L. Holland; Career-intervention outcome: what contributes to client gain?, Laurel W. Oliver and Arnold R. Spokane; Career counseling in the