Supporting Career Development Among Adults Living With Epilepsy

By Jim Felli

Adults living with epilepsy face career development challenges that extend beyond seizure management. Stigma, disclosure concerns, transportation limitations, and reduced employment opportunities can influence educational and vocational outcomes. This article reviews common career barriers experienced by adults with epilepsy and offers practical recommendations for career counselors seeking to support career readiness and long-term employment success. Developing a deeper understanding of one population’s unique career needs can strengthen a counselor’s ability to support many others.

Career Counselor Educators and Artificial Intelligence: Attitudes and Actions

By Hongshan Shao and Barbara Parker-Bell

As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly incorporated into counselor education, career counselor educators need to navigate both opportunities and challenges. Some educators remain uncertain about its ethical and practical implementation. This article applies Hirschi (2020) four-step framework to offer strategies for integrating AI into career counseling coursework.

Five Reflections for Equity-Informed Career Practice: Moving From Good Intentions to Better Decisions

By Maisie Lynch

Career development professionals make routine decisions regarding their practices. that can shape who may access and benefit from their services. Five research-informed reflections—access, assumptions, agency, action, and accountability—can help practitioners identify barriers and make more equitable decisions.

Supporting First-Generation College-Bound Students: The Role of the School Counselor

By Philip S. Benowitz

First-generation college-bound students face significant barriers accessing, persisting, and succeeding in college. These challenges are shaped by a range of structural, social, and psychological factors including limited family experience with higher education. School counselors play a critical role in addressing these barriers by providing targeted strategies that support students through the college planning, admissions, and transition processes.

Beyond Cultural Awareness: Charting the Course for Intercultural Competence in Career Services

By Esther Ra and Vicky Lee

Intercultural competence is an essential skill in today’s interconnected, diverse, and rapidly changing world. This article explores the meaning of intercultural competence, the importance of cultural humility, and how to effectively incorporate intercultural competence in career services practices, particularly when working with international and immigrant students.

Grief in the Workplace: Understanding, Supporting, and Intervening

By Ali Trovillion and Padraig Hughes

This article identifies how career practitioners can support clients whose grief over a loss is affecting work. By providing practical resources and interventions, clinicians can enhance clients’ productivity and strengthen emotional regulations, while guiding employers towards compassionate accommodations to promote resilience and sustained professional functioning.

Defining the Path: Professional Identity in Career Development

By Tammison R. Smith

Although career practitioners help others develop meaningful careers, little is known about how they find their way into the profession or develop their professional identities themselves. This NCDA Leadership Academy project explored those pathways to inform recruitment, advocacy, collaboration, and public understanding of career development.

Spreadsheet Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts in Excel really do save time. Here are a couple that may come in handy for the practitioner who uses a spreadsheet to manage client data:

• Select All: Ctrl + A
• Select an entire column: Ctrl + Spacebar
• Select an entire row: Shift + Spacebar

Tech Tip submitted by Catherine Allen, AEO Committee Member, catherine.allen2@duke.edu