The scientific approach to vocational guidance / C.S. Myers.

  • Charles Samuel Myers
Date:
[1935?]
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Credit: The scientific approach to vocational guidance / C.S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN WEEKLY EVENING MEETING Friday, May io, 1935 SIR ROBERT ROBERTSON, K.B.E., M.A., F.R.S. Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair C. S. MYERS, C.B.E., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., M.R.I. Principal of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE In several ways the giving of vocational advice resembles the giving of medical advice. Each is an Art, not a Science ; yet each is coming to depend, for its efficient practice, more and more on the use of scientific knowledge and scientific methods. The really successful doctor must employ such scientific knowledge and methods but he must also exercise wise judgment, tact and intuition. He must treat the individual, and not merely the disease from which he is suffering ; he must take into consideration not merely his patient’s local pathological disability, but his whole psychological and physiological constitu¬ tion, his family and social relations, even his financial circumstances. So, too, in vocational guidance, the adviser has not only to assess, by methods as scientific and systematic as possible, the mental and physical abilities (and disabilities), the temperament, character and entire personality of the applicant in their relation to possible occupations. He has also to consider the applicant’s social, economic and family environment, and the opportunities and prospects which an occupation, otherwise M Y E R 1 CHAR L F ^ n a v/ LI £ NATIONAL INSTITUTE Hi INDUSTRIALPSVCHOLOGY