Theories
This theory views career development as lifelong, with different developmental stages and roles.
What is Life-Space Theory (Super)?
You should think about this when helping clients understand how their background might affect their career decisions.
This is the key reason for using career assessments in counseling.
What is helping clients better understand themselves and make informed decisions about their careers?
This is the main goal of career counseling.
What is making informed career choices?
Career development is described as this instead of something that only happens when you choose a career.
What is a lifelong process?
This theory prioritizes self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and personal goals in career interests.
What is Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)?
This factor can affect a client's access to education, employment, and career opportunities.
What is socioeconomic?
This type of assessment measures a person's potential to perform tasks or learn skills.
What is an aptitude assessment?
Career counseling can help clients with decisions about career, education, training, and this.
What is employment?
The five roles people occupy throughout their lives, according to Super's theory.
What are a citizen, a student, a worker, and family member?
In Super's theory, this concept is how someone sees themselves in their interests, abilities, values, and career roles.
What is self-concept?
You should know that career decisions are influenced by both the individual and external factors.
What are family, culture, community, social, economic, and environmental factors?
These three factors influence career decisions.
What are environmental, contextual, and multiple personal?
You use this process to help a client discover their interests, skills, values, and goals to connect with potential career choices.
What is career exploration
According to Super, these are the major life stages associated with career development.
What are growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement?
The six types in Holland's RIASEC theory.
What are Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional?
Discrimination, limited educational opportunities, and economic inequality are examples of these types of influences on career development.
What are systemic/environmental barriers?
These assessments measure what someone enjoys or prefers doing.
What is interest assessment?
A client says, "I don't know what career I want." You would start by helping the client identify these personal characteristics.
What are abilities, skills, interests, values, personality, and experiences?
A person who changes their career at age 40 demonstrates this idea about career development.
What are transitions and changes throughout the lifespan?
This approach prioritizes how people construct meaning from their career experiences.
What is the career construction approach?
These factors should be considered when a client's career choice is shaped by family expectations, discrimination, financial circumstances, or cultural values.
What are contextual and cultural influences?
This assessment helps someone identify career interests by comparing their interests with those of people in the same career.
What is the Strong Interest Inventory?
A client has picked a career but has been putting off applications because they don't want to fail or get rejected. You should explore this factor that might be interfering.
What are self-efficacy beliefs?
You are working with a mid-career client who wants to change careers. You should think about their interests and these contextual factors.
What are family responsibilities, finances, experience, transferable skills, and education?