Career Counseling Theories
A theory created by Frank Parsons in 1909, which suggests that people have different traits, jobs require specific combinations of characteristics, and effective counseling matches a person's traits to specific jobs.
What is Trait-Factor Theory?
Checklists, games, fantasies, forced-choice activities, and cards are examples of this.
Defined as “the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group."
What is acculturation?
Information that can be counted or measured and represented numerically.
What is quantitative data?
Instances in which there are competing “rights” or there is a struggle to determine the “least bad” course of action.
What are ethical dilemmas?
A theory that suggests people can be categorized by one of six personality types, including realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, or conventional.
What is John Holland’s Theory of Types and Person–Environment Interactions?
What are formal assessments?
Highlights the importance of designing career development interventions that are specific to the client’s culture.
What is an emic perspective?
Information about the perceived value of the services and the extent to which predefined program outcomes were achieved.
This principle means counselors make honest promises and honor their commitments to clients, students, and supervisees.
What is fidelity?
A theory that identifies four factors that influence how people make career decisions: 1) genetic endowment and special abilities, 2) environmental conditions and events, 3) instrumental and associative learning experiences, and 4) task-approach skills.
What is John Krumboltz's Learning Theory of Career Counseling (LTCC)?
This is either in print form or electronic and consists of a collection of items that provide evidence of an individual's capability and skills.
What is a career portfolio?
Someone who is psychologically caught between two cultures.
What is a marginal person?
A clear statement of a goal, including how to determine whether or not the goal has been reached.
What is a measurable objective?
This principle means to tell the truth and not lie or deceive others.
What is veracity?
A stage of Super’s 5 Life Span Stages where established workers perform tasks of holding, updating and innovating in their fields.
What is the Maintenance Stage?
This property refers to whether or not the results that clients receive compare them to other people or rank order characteristics related only to themselves.
What is comparison?
Individuals who rely on shared interests, group norms, and common goals to inform their decision-making
What are collectivists?
The purpose of this step of the program design process is to get a clear picture of the people whom the program will serve.
What is "step 1" - to define the target population and its characteristics?
Allows individuals to limit access to information about themselves.
What is privacy?
According to Linda Gottfredson, this involves the process of eliminating unacceptable occupational alternatives based primarily on gender and prestige.
What is circumscription?
This assessment is designed to identify career beliefs that may be preventing them from reaching career goals.
What is The Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI)?
According to the Racial Identity Model, individuals in this stage objectively examine the cultural values of their own group and those espoused by the dominant group.
What is the synergistic articulation and awareness stage?
An individual who receives services and who cares about them, who profits from them, who needs to be informed, and who provides the approval and funding for their continuation.
What is a stakeholder?
The National Career Development Association (NCDA) created this to help define professional behavior and protect the public, the profession, and those who practice within the profession.
What is Code of Ethics?