Responses to Osipow
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Reaction: Responses to Osipow Roger A. Myers Columbia University Not long ago I was having lunch with a former student, Hazel (that's not her real name), who had shortly before taken a position on an agency staff headed by another former student who had graduated some years before her. I said to her, "What has happened to Charlie (that's not his real name either)? I never see him, hear from him or see anything he has written." Hazel replied, "Oh, Charlie's in a deep depression since he figured out that there are no main effects; everything is an interaction." Osipow (that, as far as I know, is his real name) seems to be a good candidate for immunity from such a malady. His analysis of issues and problems of research on career counseling hints broadly and frequently of his skepticism about attempts to understand career counseling and associated treatments as a main effect. His concerns about appropriate criteria, and those of the scholars he cites, are important and helpful. He gives deserved emphasis to Oliver's (1979) notion that events outside of counseling affect the lives, and indeed, the criterion - relevant behavior - of clients. He advocates the