Frank Parsons and the Progressive Movement.

Career Development Quarterly | September 1, 2001| | Copyright

This article recounts the social influences that must have inspired Frank Parsons to create vocational counseling and traces the profession's early development.

Frank Parsons settled in Boston in about 1885, after returning from his hiatus in the Southwest, and lived there until his death in 1908. We cannot know if Parsons would have agreed, but from our contemporary perspective, these 20 or so years must have been an extraordinary time to be alive. Nicknamed the Gilded Age by Mark Twain, it was an era in which Parsons saw astonishing changes. (The broad sweep of the ...

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