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The primary organization for professional career counselors.

What is the National Career Development Association?

100

Influenced by unplanned events

The Chaos Theory of Careers stresses that career development is:

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Structural theorist whose theory provides an explicit link between various personality characteristics and cooresponding job titles. 

Who is Holland?

100

In the executive processing domain of the CASVE model, control and monitoring are essential for deciphering the information needed?

What is to resolve a career problem and determine when to move to the next phase?

100

The systemic pursuit of an objective valued by oneself and desired by others; directed and consecutive, it requires expenditure of effort. 

What is Super's (partial) definition of work?

200

The Career Development Quarterly

What is the publication of the NCDA

200

Extends the Parsonian model by incorporating more recent developments related to how people engage in cognitive information processing.

What is the Cognitive Information Processing Approach?

200

Theorist who developed the social learning theory of career decision making.

Who is Krumboltz?

200

Formal and informal

What are the two broad categories assessment instruments and techniques are commonly divided into?

200

A term that refers to the lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as well as contextual influences shaping a person's career over the lifespan.

What is career development?

300

Identifies career development as one of three areas essential to the work of school counselors

What is the American School Counselor Association (ASCA)?

300

Postmodern constructivist

Which theory has a key construct that includes meaning-making?

300

Integrative Life Planning

What theory did Hansen develop?

300

A U.S. Department of Labor web-based instrument designed to measure interests by Holland's six personality types for a person in middle school through adult. 

What is the O*Net Interest Profiler?

300

Formal relationship in which a professional counselor assists a client or group of clients to cope more effectively with career concerns.

What is career counseling?

400

Four organizations that have developed guidelines for the sue of ICT in career counseling.

What are the American Counseling Association (ACA), International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG), National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the National Career Development Association (NCDA)

400

Social Cognitive Career Theory

Which theory has the key constructs of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, personal goals, and triadic reciprocal model?

400

Donald Super

Who developed the Life-Span or Life-Space theory, with a developmental orientation?

400

An assessment tool that measures interests in eight different areas - occupations, school subjects, activities, leisure activities, types of people preferred as coworkers, preference between two activities, personal characteristics, and preference in the world-of-work.

What is the Strong Interest Inventory?

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The degree of relatedness within types, according to Holland's theory.

What is consistency?

500

National standard organized into three domains, with goals for each domain and mastery indicators for each goal.

What is the National Career Development Guidelines framework?

500

Frank Parsons trait and factor

Which theory includes the principle of "it is better to choose a vocation than to merely hunt for a job"

500

Cognitive Information Processing Approach

Peterson, Sampson, Reardon, and Lentz developed this theory, whose key constructs include a pyramid of information, executive processing domain, and career thoughts inventory

500

Identify clients needs, help clients learn more about themselves, and monitor client's progress.

What are three specific purposes of assessment?

500

Protecting, listening, enquiring, acknowledging, supporting, and exchanging

What does the acronym PLEASE, which is used as an aid to express mattering to clients, stand for?

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