Career Assessments
Checklists, games, fantasies, forced-choice activities, card sorts, and structured interviews.
What are informal career assessments?
This model highlights self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, and personal goals.
What is social cognitive career theory?
Developed the concept of planned happenstance.
Who is Krumboltz?
This type of counseling is effective in strengthening career decision-making confidence, lessening career indecision, bolstering secondary school student engagement, and increasing work satisfaction.
What is career counseling?
This principle mandates that counselors actively promote the growth and welfare of those they serve.
Measures interests in eight different areas and provides a Holland code.
What is the Strong Interest Inventory?
This theory by Mark Savickas blends differential, developmental, and dynamic perspectives, emphasizing how individuals impose meaning on vocational behavior by weaving experiences into life themes.
What is Career Construction Theory?
Developed the Theory of Circumscription, Compromise, and Self-Creation.
Who is Linda Gottfredson?
The optimal number of group counseling members.
What is 5 to 8 members?
Sets forth values, ethical principles, and ethical standards to which professionals aspire and by which their actions can be judged.
What is a code of ethics?
This personality assessment, based on Jung’s psychological types, assigns a four-letter code from scales including Extraversion–Introversion and Thinking–Feeling.
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
This is the leading developmental approach to career development.
What is Super's life-span, life-space theory?
This psychologist proposed that early childhood experiences shape career behavior through need structures, identifying three child-rearing environments: emotional concentration, avoidance, and acceptance.
Who is Anna Roe?
What is three? (beginning/initial, middle/working, ending/termination)
These provide a more solid framework for counseling ethics decision making.
What are ethical principles?
This career assessment, created by Holland, measures personality type and matches individuals to six occupational types, linking results to O*NET occupations and suggested majors.
What is the Self-Directed Search (SDS)?
This theory identifies four factors which influence career decisions: genetic endowment and special abilities; environmental conditions and events; instrumental and associative learning experiences, and task-approach skills.
What is John Krumboltz's Learning Theory of Career Counseling?
This theorist explained how heredity and experience shape interests, competencies, and values over time, resulting in distinct personality types linked to characteristic behaviors.
Who is John Holland?
Career counselors should do this at the onset of counseling to determine the client's concerns, expectations, and goals.
Situations in which there are struggles between right and wrong was labeled this by Kidder.
What are moral temptations?
An inventory to assess a client's barriers, or irrational beliefs, that prevent moving forward with career concerns.
What is The Career Beliefs Inventory (Krumboltz)?
There are six types of people and six types of environments are two of the four basic assumptions of this theory.
What is John Holland's Theory of Types and Person-Environment Interactions?
Who is Donald Super?
These interventions require practitioners to consider universal vs. culture-specific variables, ethnocentrism, client acculturation, and identity development—while reflecting on how these factors shape their own approach.
What are culturally competent career development interventions?
Career counselors are guided by many Codes of Ethics, but our textbook highlights one by this organization.
What is the NCDA?