The authors conducted a content analysis on the type, frequency, and intensity of use of various indicators of rigor for 68 qualitative research articles published between 1999 and 2014 in the Journal of Counseling & Development. The authors identified the most frequently listed and implemented strategies for the research articles. The authors found a significant engagement in rigor strategies across time, variations in intensity in strategy use, and a significant positive relationship between intensity of strategy use across time.

The vocational guidance movement began with the Vocation Bureau of Boston (Jones, 1994). Frank Parsons' (1909) Choosing a Vocation and the Vocational Bureau of Boston reflected the zeitgeist at the turn of the century-responding to the Industrial Revolution and embodying the ideals of both the progressive movement and education reform (Shen-Miller, McWhirter, & Bartone, 2012). Parsons intended to ameliorate social injustice in a scientific fashion-to provide a standardized means of assisting youths in STW transitions while also providing guidance for an emerging profession (Hartung & Blustein, 2002). Parsons' work provided a scaffold for career development interventions and research for the first 50 years of the 20th century (Herr, Cramer, & Niles, 2004).

Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, Human Services Professionals (HSPs) are faced with clients experiencing increased anxiety. HSPs again must broaden their scope of competency to approach this novel, natural phenomenon. Science literacy is the understanding and application of scientific knowledge toward decisions and sensemaking. Although science literacy has many facets, one area, Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs), prioritizes individuals’ funds of knowledge to engage with new phenomena such as COVID-19. This paper describes the role of HSPs responding to COVID-19; provides a conceptual framework through the Ecological Systems Theory, which centers on clients and science literacy; and proposes an integration of science concepts with HSPs’ work. Finally, this paper ends with a vignette collection offering CCCs and resource pathways HSPs can utilize with their clients.

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