Issues for Dual Career Families
TV of Today: 90s and 2000s
Implications for Career Counseling
TV of Yesteryear
Intervention Strategies
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On the show, "Home Improvement", Jill decided to go back to school and finish her degree. Tim struggled with taking care of the kids and maintaining the household without Jill's assistance. Tim was required to take on more responsibility within the home and that created some tension.
What is role conflict?
100
On this show, Julia a corporate attorney and Joel the stay at home dad switch roles when they adopt a second child. Julia struggles being a stay at home mom when Joel goes back to work.
What is Parenthood?
100
Equally committed to career and are more successful at it. Work together to achieve their goals but may be under work stress and overload.
What are Acrobats?
100
This family featured two parents in the workforce, one a doctor and the other a lawyer.
Who are the Huxtables?
100
This is a recommended intervention strategy for struggling dual-career couples.
What is couples counseling?
200
This happens when one spouse neglects household tasks forcing the other spouse to take on added duties.
What is role overload?
200
This TV show of the 90s featured a single father raising three daughters with the assistance of a brother-in-law and friend for childcare.
What is "Full House"?
200
Career beliefs Skills, proficiencies and abilities Academic achievement Interest levels
What do assessment tools measure?
200
On this Dyno-mite! TV show, this family featured one working parent, and relied on government assistance and hand-me-downs for their four children
What is "Good Times"?
200
This person can provide help with role-sharing strategies, leisure time commitments, restatement of career goals, care development of children, and reformulation of life-span goals.
What is a career counselor?
300
Flexible work policies regarding phone usage, flextime, home office, and job sharing have been introduced to address this issue facing dual-career families.
What is day care?
300
"Did I do that?"
What is Family Matters?
300
Differential Aptitude Test/Career Interest Inventory (DAT/C111) General Aptitude Test Battery (GA TB) Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASV AB) Flanagan Aptitude Classification Tests (FACT) Inventory of Work-Relevant Abilities (IWRA)
What are Career skills/abilities inventories?
300
This sitcom featured a blue-collar family with dual-earners struggling to get by on their income raising 3 kids in Lanford, Illinois.
What is Roseanne?
300
Developing a framework to guide both partners with a _____________ should be identified to assist with future scenarios.
What is conflict resolution process?
400
These partners are equally committed to the career and family life, but draw most of their satisfaction from their home life.
What are allies?
400
This TV drama features an accommodator wife who gave up her career as a communications director to pursue motherhood and support her husband's bid for Governor of California.
What is "Brothers and Sisters"? (Robert and Kitty McAlister)
400
16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) California Test of Personality Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Temperament and Values Inventory Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
What are personality tests?
400
This TV dad of the 1960s worked as a bronto crane operator, cop, and baseball coach.
Who is Fred Flintstone?
400
An important implication with counseling dual-career families involves increasing both partners’ __________ of their issues.
What are knowledge and awareness?
500
Between the early 1950s and the early 1990s, married women in the labor force increased by
What is 45%?
500
Features a mother who is a car salesperson with children named Axl and Brick.
What is "The Middle"?
500
Work Environment Preference Schedule Work Values Inventory (WVI) Study of Values Survey of Personal Values The Values Scale
What are values tests?
500
First TV show to feature a single parent in a dual role?
What is "The Andy Griffith Show"?
500
role conflicts, relationship strengthening, financial concerns, time management, stress management, and work-life balancing
What are areas that should be examined in the therapeutic process?
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