This article integrates some of the major literature of person- centered counseling and its contextual application to career counseling and career assessment. The discussion of a person- centered career counseling model and the use of testing or assessment in the person-centered stance emphasizes several factors in tandem with the crux of the person-centered approach. A historical perspective of the person-centered approach, the major premise hypothesized by Rogers of certain basic core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for therapeutic personality change, is reviewed within the perspective of person-centered assessment. In addition, a model which incorporates the principles of the person- centered approach is reviewed and examples of assessment from this particular framework are presented.
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