Anotace:
Career guidance and counselling, even though its beginnings can be traced some 120 years back, is still undergoing professionalization as a helping profession. Selected definitions from the recent two decades covering the American and European traditions provide a basis for defining career guidance and counselling as an occupation and a service. On the background of this − to a certain extent artificial − distinction between occupation and service, the goal of this article is pursued: to present variations in understanding professionalism in career guidance and counselling, to describe two directions in career guidance and counselling professionalization in the Czech environment. The first of that − professionalization in the sense of shifting from an occupation to a career guidance profession has a firm basis in theory and related professional expertise of career counsellors. The second of that − professionalization of career guidance services is happening as a top-to-bottom process of institutionalization of guidance and counselling services and as internally as professional community institutionalization.