Career Stages: Super explains the origins of his model of career stages.  He built his ideas on research conducted by a psychologist and two sociologists.  He used the model of life stages originated by Charlotte Buhler, a developmental psychologist at the University of Vienna.  He adopted the idea of career patterns from Miller and Form, two Kent State University occupational sociologists.

Recycling: Super explains his idea of recycling through the life-cycle and contrasts the concepts of a maxi-cycle and a mini-cycle.

Coping Behaviors: Super explains the coping behaviors that individual use to make the school-to-work transition:  floundering, drifting, stagnation, instrumentation, and stabilization,

Role Rigid: Super distinguished between occupations that are role rigid and role flexible, and relates these to opportunities for self-expression in a job.

Career Development Inventory: Super describes the construction and development of the Career Development Inventory and its scales for planning orientation, use of resources, occupational information and decision making.

CDI Case Studies: Super explains how to interpret score profiles from the Career Development Inventory using the results from four different high school students. The profiles can be downloaded by clicking the word icon in the last column.  Along the way, he distinguishes between occupational awareness and career awareness.