Editorial note.

This issue of The Career Development Quarterly (CDQ) falls between the editorship of Ellen Cook and Mark Pope. The Board of Directors of the National Career Development Association asked me to guide this one issue through the editorial process. Therefore, the editorial board and I are responsible for selecting and editing the articles that appear on the following pages.

CDQ editors, and subsequently the readers, are fortunate to draw from the work of scholars who write from diverse perspectives. In this issue, we are especially pleased to present work that represents current thinking about careers in three nations: Australia and Canada as well as the United States. Authors have approached career development from varied theoretical viewpoints--ecological, chaos theory, cross-cultural--and from the client's phenomenological viewpoint. These perspectives and viewpoints seem to reflect the dynamic nature of work in career development these days.

We also include articles that draw readers' attention to the careers of people who may seem "hidden" from everyday social intercourse, specifically, articles about people who have lost their jobs; same-sex, dual-career couples; persons living with HIV; and Chinese American youth in an urban setting. The aggregate articles reflect diverse qualities of people served by career development professionals.

We commend these authors and their work and offer their articles for your professional reading about the wide-ranging field of career development.

--David A. Jepsen, Guest Editor