Mark Savickas

Entry about Mark Savickas: This biography celebrates Mark Savickas' pivotal role in articulating a new framework for career counseling for the twenty-first century; one that can be used to help clients choose careers and design successful lives. His contribution to vocational guidance and career counseling has immense theoretical and practical value for all of us involved in helping clients. Savickas' incisive analysis of the weaknesses of traditional career counseling models has become a point of reference for all psychologists, no matter where in the world they may find themselves. Savickas is clearly not simply a scholar who conducts research and trains psychologists; he is also one of a very small, elite band of scholars who reflect on the merits and limitations of regnant models of Counseling Psychology. In doing so, this singularly gifted scholar influences psychologists, universities, and governments globally with respect to his gifted, inspired, and systematic reflections on Counseling Psychology.