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Decade theory was developed
1950's
Become aware of need to make career decisions
Holland's 6 types
Realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional
What helps clients make current decisions and formulate future goals
First assumption
Career professionals should think holistically about their lives.
Proposition #1
People differ in their abilities, personalities, needs, values, interests, traits, and self-concepts
Important qualification for clinicians utilizing assessments
Have very detailed knowledge
Third basic assumption
people search for environments that will let them exercise their skills and abilities, express their attitudes and values, and take on agreeable problems and roles.
Two categories career development interventions are divided into
Developmental/preventative and targeted/remedial.
Second assumption
Comprehensive life planning in the 21st century should blend self-knowledge and knowledge about society.
Three stages of development
Fantasy (birth age - 11), tentative (ages 11-17), realistic (17-early 20s)
Definition of formal assessments
May be timed standardized tests or untimed standardized inventories that have been subjected to scientific rigor.
Fourth basic assumption
a person’s behavior is determined by an interaction between personality and the characteristics of the environment.
What Krumboltz recommends measuring changes in client characteristics by
Skills, values, beliefs, interests, work habits.
Third assumption
Career professionals are agents for positive change.
How career development can be facilitated across the life span
Providing developmentally appropriate interventions
Difference between test and inventory
inventory = assessing content areas in which there are no right or wrong answers
test = if items have right or wrong answers
Congruence
The degree of fit between an individual's personality type and and current or prospective work environment.
4th counselor readiness factor to help clients cope with career-related trends.
Career counselors need to play a major role in dealing with all career challenges, not just selection. Many clients struggle with burnout, underemployment, low self-efficacy, conflicts with coworkers, and family members’ reactions to their career choices.
One factor that separates ILP from other theories
Incorporation of spirituality
Identified concepts that were novel at the time
Proposing the notion that there is variability among workers in the same occupation, multiple life-role development is important, self concepts change over time
How test-retest reliability os measured
Correlation coefficient
Consistency
The degree of relatedness within types.
What LTCC emphasizes clients be able to do
make career decisions
Emphases in relation to life planning.
Connectedness, wholeness, and community.