Steven D. Brown, PhD, is a professor of counseling psychology at Loyola University in Chicago.

Robert W. Lent, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Both editors are Fellows of the Society of Counseling Psychology and editors of Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work (Wiley). They developed, along with Gail Hackett, social cognitive career theory and have written widely on important topics in counseling and vocational psychology.